museum | meaning of museum in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Visualmuseummu‧se‧um /mjuːˈziəm $ mjʊ-/ ●●● S3 W2 noun [countable]    AVSEa building where important cultural, historical, or scientific objects are kept and shown to the public  the Museum of Modern Art  The museum has an extensive collection of early photographs.Examples from the Corpusmuseum• He never fails to awe me with his ability to paint a word portrait worthy of a museum that charges admission.• Each would offer five exhibitions a year, which would then travel among the four museums.• Fossils are more than just bones for dinosaur fans to look at in museums.• The burglar as Renaissance man, Luther sketches Old Masters in museums.• Oaxaca's philatelic museum, meanwhile, announced that it would issue a stamp bearing Morales' image and signature.• Baldesaro is in New York preparing a showing at the Museum of Modern Art.• Does the private cultural foundation cover the running costs of the museum for the next ten years?• The museum has a few of Van Gogh's early paintings.• the Museum of Modern ArtOrigin museum (1600-1700) Latin Greek Mouseion, from Mousa; → MUSE2