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]

	

	museum
    n 1: a depository for collecting and displaying objects having
         scientific or historical or artistic value

	

	54 Moby Thesaurus words for "museum":
   British Museum, Festschrift, Guggenheim Museum, Hermitage,
   Indian reservation, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, National Gallery,
   Prado, Rijksmuseum, Tate Gallery, Uffizi, ana, anthology, aquarium,
   archives, art gallery, bank, bird sanctuary, body, chrestomathy,
   collectanea, collection, compilation, corpus, curatorship, data,
   florilegium, forest preserve, fund, gallery, game reserve,
   holdings, library, menagerie, museology, national forest,
   national park, paradise, park, picture gallery, pinacotheca,
   preserve, raw data, reservation, reserve, salon, sanctuary,
   state forest, store, treasure, wilderness preserve,
   wildlife preserve, zoo

	

	museum

   Museums on the Web
   (http://comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html).
   (http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/museums.html).

   (1995-03-16)