museum
UK/mjuːˈziːəm//mjuˈziəm/
museum noun: a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
Noun
museum (plural museums or (rare) musea)
- A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
- visit the history museum
- They're opening a new coin exhibition at the local museum.
Verb
museum (third-person singular simple present museums, present participle museuming, simple past and past participle museumed)
- To place in a museum.
- I use daily those books that for others are museumed. The glass case approach depresses me, makes books into porcelain, guts them of what they are.2013, Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
- Such museuming provides evidence that the Gulf has started building up its defences to protect its national culture, which might be seen as threatened by modern, global societies.2016, Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla, Victoria Hightower, Representing the Nation, page 77
- To visit museums.
- I told her I'd do just one visit to start; I don't really have time to do a lot of museuming.2014, Robin Reardon, Educating Simon, page 212
Proper noun capitalized: Museum
the Museum
- Alternative form of the Mouseion
- The Museum was thoroughly regarded in the light of an important institution of the state, and after the subjugation of Egypt by the Romans continued to be maintained by the Emperors.1873, The American Journal of Education, page 510
- Alexander never lived to see the city completed but most of the celebrated bildings we know so well by name—the Museum, Soma, Library, Gymnasium, etc.—were the work of the architect he had chosen [...]. / [...] / The Museum, the home of the Muses, was in shadow reproduced by our mediæval...1893, Alfred E. P. Raymund Dowling, “A Walk in Alexandria”, in Littell's Living Age, page 179
museum meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
museum in Hindi
- building or institution
- संग्रहालय saṅgrahālay, म्यूज़ियम myūziyam, अजायबघर ajāyabghar
museum in Tamil
- building or institution
- அருங்காட்சியகம் aruṅkāṭciyakam
museum in Marathi
- building or institution
- वस्तुसंग्रहालय vastusaṅgrahālay, संग्रहालय saṅgrahālay
museum in Urdu
- building or institution
- عَجائِب گَھر 'ajāib ghar, عَجائِب خانَہ 'ajāib xāna, مْیُوزِیَم myūziyam
More languagesFewer languages
- museum in Bengali
- জাদুঘর jadughor
- museum in Telugu
- సంగ్రహాలయం saṅgrahālayaṁ
- museum in Malayalam
- സംഗ്രഹാലയം saṅgrahālayaṁ, കാഴ്ചബംഗ്ലാവ് kāḻcabaṅglāvŭ, മ്യൂസിയം myūsiyaṁ
- museum in Kannada
- ಒಡವೆಮನೆ oḍavemane
- museum in Punjabi
- ਮਿਊਜ਼ੀਅਮ miūzīama
- museum in Gujarati
- સંગ્રહસ્થાન saṅgrahasthān, સંગ્રહાલય saṅgrahālya
- museum in Odia
- ମିଉଜିଅମ୍ miujiam
- museum in Sinhala
- කෞතුකාගාරය kautukāgāraya
- museum in Assamese
- যাদুঘৰ zadughor
- museum in Nepali
- संग्रहालय saṅgrahālaya
- museum in Pashto
- موزيم mozyam
- museum in Tagalog
- museo
- museum in Arabic
- مَتْحَف matḥaf
- museum in Malay
- ajaibkhanah, muzium, museum
- museum in Indonesian
- museum
- museum in Thai
- พิพิธภัณฑ์ pí-pít-tá-pan, พิพิธภัณฑสถาน pí-pít-tá-pan-tá-sà-tǎan
- museum in Vietnamese
- nhà bảo tàng, viện bảo tàng
- museum in Myanmar
- ပြတိုက် pra.tuik
Examples of museum in a sentence
- "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed."
- A valuable collection of silver plate was donated to the museum.
- We’ve seen most of the sights, but we are still visiting the museum.
Forms of museum
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | museums |
| plural (rare) | musea |
| alternative form (archaic) | musæum |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | museums |
| present participle | museuming |
| past participle | museumed |
| past | museumed |
Origin of museum
From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). Doublet of mosaic.
Borrowed from Latin Mūsēum, from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”) + -εῖον (-eîon, noun-forming suffix meaning “place or building associated with a specific purpose or person”). By surface analysis, Muse + -eum.
Words formed from museum
- antimuseum
- British Museum algorithm
- cybermuseum
- dime museum
- ecomuseum
- geomuseum
- house museum
- imaginary museum
- living museum
- minimuseum
- multimuseum
- museomics
- museum beetle
- museumed out
- museumesque
- museum-goer
- museumgoer
- museumgoing
- museumification
- museumify
- museumist
- museumization
- museumize
- museumless
- museumlike
- museumobile
- museum pest
- museum piece
- museum problem
- museum restoration
- museumwide
- museumworthy
- nonmuseum
- open-air museum
- open air museum
- wax museum
Phrases with museum
Words that rhyme with museum
Questions about museum
- What does museum mean?
- Museum means a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
- What is museum in Hindi?
- Museum in Hindi is संग्रहालय (saṅgrahālay), म्यूज़ियम (myūziyam), अजायबघर (ajāyabghar). See Museum meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is museum?
- Museum can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce museum?
- Museum is pronounced /mjuːˈziːəm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of museum?
- The plural of museum is museums.
Words near museum in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: museum (page history and authors); Museum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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