as in galleries
a building or part of a building in which objects of interest are displayed
a trip to the Museum of Natural History
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Recent Examples of museums
The country has spent two decades building museums, commissioning public art, and assembling blue-chip collections.
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 20 May 2026
Now a 39-year-old flight attendant for a Spanish airline, Galizia was just 17 years old when mutual friends put him in touch with photographer Piero Pazzi, who has also created a calendar featuring Venetian gondoliers and has founded museums in Budapest and Montenegro on the history of cats.
—ABC News, 20 May 2026
The same for museums, where new technology can reopen conversations about objects that were once closed.
—Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Art lovers can explore more than a dozen museums, including Meow Wolf and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026
What happened Engaging in the arts, whether directly or by going to museums or concerts, helps people age more slowly, British researchers reported Monday in the journal Innovation in Aging.
—Peter Weber, TheWeek, 13 May 2026
There are also a variety of museums to choose from alongside a couple of viewing platforms—and even a sightseeing cruise amongst the available attractions.
—Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 May 2026
By her later years, much of her art collection had been promised to museums.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
The museums, the restaurants, the shopping.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 20 May 2026
Now a 39-year-old flight attendant for a Spanish airline, Galizia was just 17 years old when mutual friends put him in touch with photographer Piero Pazzi, who has also created a calendar featuring Venetian gondoliers and has founded museums in Budapest and Montenegro on the history of cats.
—ABC News, 20 May 2026
The same for museums, where new technology can reopen conversations about objects that were once closed.
—Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Art lovers can explore more than a dozen museums, including Meow Wolf and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026
What happened Engaging in the arts, whether directly or by going to museums or concerts, helps people age more slowly, British researchers reported Monday in the journal Innovation in Aging.
—Peter Weber, TheWeek, 13 May 2026
There are also a variety of museums to choose from alongside a couple of viewing platforms—and even a sightseeing cruise amongst the available attractions.
—Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 May 2026
By her later years, much of her art collection had been promised to museums.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
The museums, the restaurants, the shopping.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for museums
Noun
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It’s mostly surrounded by embassies and law firms, not cafés or galleries.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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If Frieze is the amuse bouche for someone visiting New York during its busiest art week of the year, the span of galleries that dot Chelsea is the entrée.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
15 May 2026
Noun
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Auction houses have increasingly blurred the line between commercial and institutional space over the past decade, mounting scholarly exhibitions, publishing museum-quality catalogs, and courting curatorial prestige.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
19 May 2026
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Right now, the most likely uses seem to be entertainment, exhibitions, research, security demos or specialized industrial testing.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
19 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Museums.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/museums. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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