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museum

[myoo-zee-uhm] / mjuˈzi əm /


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Campaigners are also anxious to see the ship remain in Newport, rather than being displayed at a museum facility elsewhere in the future.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

The remains were already "on their way to Heathrow" airport, the museum director said, after overcoming "so much red tape everywhere".

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Less than a week ago, the museum debuted a new piece of public art, Shio Kusaka’s “Beam,” a clay mosaic flying saucer supported by a yellow metal cone of light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

In the 1990s, amid concerns that the site did not do enough to confront the crimes of the Nazi past, a museum, the Obersalzberg Documentation Centre, was opened close by.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Uh, I don’t think this is about the museum anymore.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

His longtime personal curator, Elizabeth Szancer, says Lauder and his wife, Jo Carole Lauder, are lending fewer pieces to other museums, wary of being parted too long from works they want to see daily.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Some 80 galleries throw open their doors across the city with museums and nonprofits offering special programming throughout the boroughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Sophie Fish, museums manager at Gwella, which manages the councils libraries and leisure, said she hoped "some of the most interesting finds" from Mancot could go on display at Mold Museum in 2027.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Works from the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Landesmuseum Württemberg and other international museums round out the exhibit.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

How about the old-fashioned kind of art, the kind in museums that turned up on postcards and posters in people’s kitchens, the kind that they’d been talking about in school today?

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett


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