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museum

[myoo-zee-uhm] / mjuˈzi əm /


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"Work like this shows the exceptional value of working with historical museum collections where there are still many discoveries to be made."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Its goal is to restore the site, which has the world's southernmost Post Office, museum, and more than 1,000 gentoo penguins.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

North Korean state media didn’t specify where the museum was located or if it would be open to the general public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

That’s a veritable bargain for such a museum piece, argues Tracy James, who is leading the efforts to restore the project, one that’s expected to take at least two years and cost millions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The museum was a dusty, moldy, underfunded, neglected mess.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Several European museums and galleries have seen major thefts in recent months.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The ban could apply to parks, beaches, museums, shopping centres, schools, daycare centres, healthcare facilities, gyms and public events.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

According to government figures from 2023–2024, 43 percent of visitors to national museums were foreigners.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

In March 2020, the Smithsonian shuttered its museums for the pandemic.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Frederick A. Murphy was one of the original discoverers of Ebola virus, the wizard with an electron microscope who had first photographed the virus and whose work had hung in art museums.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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