How do you use the word "museum" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "museum": When was it that you visited the museum? I would often visit the museum when I lived in Kyoto.

Museum Meaning

/mjuːˈziːəm/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

verbTo place in a museum.

Sentence Examples

When was it that you visited the museum?

I would often visit the museum when I lived in Kyoto.

The museum contains some interesting exhibits on Spanish rural life.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The class visited the ____ to see ancient artifacts from Egypt on display.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We am planning to visit the natural history ____ tomorrow to see the new dinosaur exhibition and learn more about ancient several different types of fossils.

Word Origin & History

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). Doublet of mosaic.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I use daily those books that for others are museumed. The glass case approach depresses me, makes books into porcelain, guts them of what they are." — 2013, Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery:

"Such museuming provides evidence that the Gulf has started building up its defences to protect its national culture, which might be seen as threatened by modern, global societies." — 2016, Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla, Victoria Hightower, Representing the Nation, page 77:

"I told her I'd do just one visit to start; I don't really have time to do a lot of museuming." — 2014, Robin Reardon, Educating Simon, page 212:

"The Museum was thoroughly regarded in the light of an important institution of the state, and after the subjugation of Egypt by the Romans continued to be maintained by the Emperors." — 1873, The American Journal of Education, page 510:

"Alexander never lived to see the city completed but most of the celebrated bildings we know so well by name—the Museum, Soma, Library, Gymnasium, etc.—were the work of the architect he had chosen [...]. / [...] / The Museum, the home of the Muses, was in shadow reproduced by our mediæval universities—not a place where collections of relics of the past were stored up, but where students of literature, science, or art, whether as teachers or taughts, lived together in an atmosphere of intellectual luxury." — 1893, Alfred E. P. Raymund Dowling, “A Walk in Alexandria”, in Littell's Living Age, page 179:

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