Associations to the word «Museum»

Wiktionary

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.
MUSEUM BEETLE, noun. The beetle Anthrenus museorum.
MUSEUM BEETLES, noun. Plural of museum beetle
MUSEUM PIECE, noun. (slang) a very old item.
MUSEUM PIECE, noun. (informal) an obsolete form of technology

Dictionary definition

MUSEUM, noun. A depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats