- museum
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)n. gallery, repository, archives. See store.II(Roget's IV) n.Syn. institution, gallery, hall, place of exhibition, foundation, art gallery, library, picture gallery, archives, treasury, storehouse, depository, vault, repository, aquarium, menagerie, zoological garden, zoological park, zoo, botanical garden, herbarium, arboretum.Famous museums include: Museum of the Archaeological Society, National Museum of Antiquities, Athens; Archaeological Museum, Cairo; Louvre, Orsay, Army, Paris; British Museum, National Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museo Nazionale, Naples; Vatican Gallery, Museo Nazionale, Rome; Museo del Prado, Madrid; Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin; Rumiantsov Museum, Moscow; Hermitage, Imperial Academy of Science, Leningrad; Museo Nacional, Mexico City; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Air and Space Museum, National Gallery of Art Museum, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Washington; Field Museum, Art Institute, Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, American Museum of Natural History, Museum of the American Indian, New YOrk; Huntington Library, Pasadena, California.III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.gallery, institute, archives, treasury, exhibit, collection, repository, depository, library, storehouse, *gallery of the Muses, *nation's attic, *history's attic. ''Cemeteries of the arts.''—Alphonse de Lamartine.
English dictionary for students. 2013.