museum
nounA building, place, or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.
nounA building or part of a building appropriated as a repository of things that have an immediate relation to literature, art, or science; especially and usually, a collection of objects in natural history, or of antiquities or curiosities.
nounA repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
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a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value
