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museum

[myoo-zee-uhm] / mjuˈzi əm /


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Lauder says he trusts the Met, but he doesn’t want anything in his museum to change: “The Klimts have to stay in the Klimt room.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

The museum says on its website that items collected during this era were "frequently confiscated during punitive military expeditions, rather than freely given".

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

What I want to say is that these drawings seem too personal for a museum, something I could understand if he didn’t want the world to see.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He’s part of a generation of baby-boomer collectors who have opened namesake private museums the world over and are wrestling with how to sustain them in perpetuity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

The museum only removed all human remains from display in 2020, much later than most museums, and still has around 2,700 remains in storage, she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 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

The park’s museums should no longer be treated as isolated islands — the spaces between them urban leftovers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Tourists would be bustling through the shops and museums.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan


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