museum

noun

1. 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

1. (ambitransitive)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.”

   “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.”

2. (colloquial, intransitive)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.”

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)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.”

   “Under Roman supremacy the Museum seems to have developed into a place for higher education, studious youths flocking thither from all parts of the world to enjoy the unrivalled facilities for research which Alexandria offered, and the famous medical school, founded by Hierophilus, still flourished long after other characteristic features of intellectual life had disappeared.”