museum piece

Example Sentences

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Seeing that one figure treated as a museum piece felt like a half-hearted wave to fans who grew up with Chuck.

From Los Angeles Times

A good opera “speaks to something specific about the human condition, and isn’t just some dull, remote, inscrutable museum piece,” he told Salon.

From Salon

Sherman also said that "we're not cooking like it's 1491. We're not a museum piece of something like that. We're trying to evolve the food into the future, using as much of the knowledge from our ancestors that we can understand and just applying it to the modern world."

From Salon

Today this chip is a 'museum piece', but in the 70s it was the driver of the first Apple, Commodore and Nintendo computers.

From Science Daily

“Anderson’s sources — and Anderson — argued that it was really a museum piece, a relic,” Bennett said.

From Seattle Times