Museum

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  • noun. A building, place, or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A building or part of a building appropriated as a repository of things that have an immediate relation to literature, art, or science; especially and usually, a collection of objects in natural history, or of antiquities or curiosities.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
  • noun. See Anthrenus.
  • noun. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value