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n. A building, place, or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.

n. A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

n. A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.

n. 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.

n. a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value

"The term museum was coined because the structure was dedicated to the seven muses, but it was really a research institute, the first state-run research institute in the world."

museum pest   

repository    deposit    depositary    depository   

dime museum    type museum   

museography    museophile    museology   

science museum    Louvre    hagia sophia    santa sophia    hagia sofia    louvre museum    santa sofia   

repository    pinæcotheca    pinaecotheca   

Colosseum    Liam    athenaeum    coliseum    colosseum    mausoleum   

Art & Culture    Design    History   

library    gallery    theatre    hospital    university    park    laboratory    building    collection    cathedral