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open air museum

open air museum is the alternative form of open-air museum.

Meaning of open-air museum

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

Forms of open air museum

pluralopen air museums

Questions about open air museum

What is open air museum the alternative form of?
Open air museum is the alternative form of open-air museum.

Words near open air museum in the dictionary

  1. open admission
  2. open admissions
  3. open adoption
  4. open adoptions
  5. open air
  6. open air museum
  7. open air museums
  8. open and affirming
  9. open and notorious
  10. open and shut
  11. open and shut case

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