museum piece

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

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

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

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