museum piece

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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

“He is not merely a museum piece, but a man,” one archaeologist told The Age in 1956.

From National Geographic

Her two-star review concluded: "Everything unravels pretty much as you would expect, with tawdry infidelities, saucy indiscretions and artful zingers: it's a theatrical museum piece, barely in working order, dusty and decidedly creaky. Still, no one's really here for the play."

From BBC