How to Use museum in a Sentence

museum

noun
  • The art museum opened in 1986 and was billed as one of the largest in Europe.
    Joelle Diderich, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
  • That might mean a calm walk on the beach or a stroll through a museum.
    Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 22 Apr. 2023
  • In the winter, Art Hill—just behind the museum—is the best place to sled on a good snow day.
    Vogue, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In our local museum, a model of the fortress had pride of place.
    Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The museum is filled to the brim with bracelets, swords, and other valuables that have been retrieved from the bogs.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Atha bequeathed the painting to the museum as a partial gift in 1986.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Of course, the soirée wasn't just any average night at the museum.
    Concetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2023
  • His legacy lives on in the museums and the hearts of his countrymen.
    Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 17 June 2023
  • The school can be found on the museum’s campus, at 3500 Shamrock Drive.
    Lucy Marques, Charlotte Observer, 14 June 2024
  • The show traveled to museums in Paris, Madrid and Cologne, Germany.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But don’t think small, museum-style rooms with white walls.
    oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The shoes will live on as a permanent fixture in the museum.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Many of the items were sold through Christie’s Auction House, and 3-D replicas are displayed in the museum.
    Haley Laurence | Hlaurence@al.com, al, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Soup-slinging museum protests are back—and the target this time was the Louvre’s Mona Lisa.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 2 Feb. 2024
  • If skies are clear, the museum will hold an eclipse viewing event outside near the Green Clock on Wells Street.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Stroll through the gardens and enjoy the lilacs, plants, historic house, museum and more.
    Corey Sheldon | , oregonlive, 12 May 2023
  • The museum's 5-year-old female, Oak, gave birth to four male and three female pups on April 21.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Ritchie could even print out a scale model and display it in a museum.
    WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
  • And then a few months later, to have my son just a few feet away in the same museum being featured off of the work that he’s done. ...
    Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Stop along the way to tour the historic Bennett Station and museum.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2024
  • Harithas' tenure at the CAMH ended in 1978 due to conflicts with the museum's board.
    Brittanie Shey, Chron, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The theater is located at the John R Road entrance of the museum.
    Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2023
  • The area is a popular spot with parks, stores and a design museum.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 25 May 2023
  • The movie ends, pardon my spoiler, at the current-day museum that is Auschwitz.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The museum, like many in Europe, is free for student groups.
    Nicole Winfield and Terry Spencer, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • And that the priceless works of art in the city art museum are also immune from danger.
    Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Lords Park Zoo opened in 1895 and was once home to bears, snakes and even a lion, according to the museum’s website.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
  • For a big-city civic museum, the Carnegie in Pittsburgh is an idiosyncratic place.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • These paintings would then be displayed inside a local museum where Donoho would get down on one knee.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • During a recent visit to a local museum in southern England, a 9-year-old boy felt a pang of recognition.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024

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