museum piece

There, staff set to work, assessing the damage to the dilapidated vehicle and figuring out what it would take to transform it into a museum piece that would tell the story of a brief, unusual chapter in Alaskan history.

Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.

The car was a museum piece, and as Warble caromed into its cushions she felt that her lines had fallen in pleasant places.

It was an animal rug, a museum piece; rubies and sapphires and emeralds and topaz melted into wool.

Anything that would float was being used since the war began, though a coal-burning ship was almost a museum piece.

In the beginning the street had been preserved as a museum piece while the cartel city had grown up around it.

If it was a real Museum piece, we'd have a plate right there, with the name of the painter and the title.