'Museum' definitions:
Definition of 'museum'
(from WordNet)
noun
A depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value
Definition of 'Museum'
From: GCIDE
- Museum \Mu*se"um\, n. [L., a temple of the Muses, hence, a place of study, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? a Muse.] A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art. [1913 Webster]
- Museum beetle, Museum pest. (Zool.) See Anthrenus. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'museum'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ana,
- anthology,
- aquarium,
- archives,
- art gallery,
- bank,
- bird sanctuary,
- body,
- British Museum,
- chrestomathy,
- collectanea,
- collection,
- compilation,
- corpus,
- curatorship,
- data,
- Festschrift,
- florilegium,
- forest preserve,
- fund,
- gallery,
- game reserve,
- Guggenheim Museum,
- Hermitage,
- holdings,
- Indian reservation,
- library,
- Louvre,
- menagerie,
- Metropolitan Museum,
- museology,
- national forest,
- National Gallery,
- national park,
- paradise,
- park,
- picture gallery,
- pinacotheca,
- Prado,
- preserve,
- raw data,
- reservation,
- reserve,
- Rijksmuseum,
- salon,
- sanctuary,
- state forest,
- store,
- Tate Gallery,
- treasure,
- Uffizi,
- wilderness preserve,
- wildlife preserve,
- zoo