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open-air museum

open-air museum noun: a museum where the exhibitions are located outdoors.

Noun

open-air museum (plural open-air museums)

  1. A museum where the exhibitions are located outdoors.
    • Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes...1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 460
    • Engineers from the Tyne & Wear Metro stepped back in time in December, to conduct a safety-critical inspection of the tramway at the open-air Beamish Museum in County Durham.2022 January 12, “Network News: Nexus inspects Beamish lines”, in RAIL, number 948, page 14

Forms of open-air museum

pluralopen-air museums

Questions about open-air museum

What does open-air museum mean?
Open-air museum means a museum where the exhibitions are located outdoors.
What part of speech is open-air museum?
Open-air museum is a noun.
What is the plural of open-air museum?
The plural of open-air museum is open-air museums.

Words near open-air museum in the dictionary

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  5. open-air
  6. open-air museum
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  8. open-aired
  9. open-and-shut
  10. open-armed
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