museum piece

Example Sentences

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The show wasn’t meant to just be a museum piece.

From Seattle Times

She showed me another in-progress New Museum piece — a lumpy ceramic mass tied in the style of shibari, or Japanese rope bondage — and said that she intended to display it on the ground “like a dead body or like a sleeping body.”

From New York Times

Like so much of the author’s work in other media — the play “Jeffrey,” the film “In and Out” — “Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style” seems less interested in serving as a gay museum piece than as a filigreed statement.

From New York Times

For Glazer, it was about creating something “in present tense, not as a museum piece or something in aspic.”

From Seattle Times

When Carter had the solar panels installed 44 years ago, he said the act would “either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people.”

From Washington Post