museum
noun
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David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2024
Protesters have been targeting works as iconic as Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1893), which hangs at Norway’s National Museum, and Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring (circa 1665), which is held by the Mauritshuis museum in the Netherlands.
—Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024
Additionally, Charlotte-Mecklenburg My Brother’s Keeper will host an on-stage production and mini museum in McKnight Hall at the University of North Carolina Charlotte on Saturday, June 15, at 7 p.m.
—Myles Manor, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2024
But these objects were also taken by colonizers, and still remain on display in museum galleries far from their homes.
—NPR, 2 June 2024
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“Museum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/museum. Accessed 9 Jun. 2024.
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museum
noun
from Latin Museum "a place devoted to the Muses, a place for the study of special arts and sciences," from Greek Mouseion (same meaning), from Mouseios "of the Muses," from Mousa "Muse, goddess of an art or science" — related to music
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