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Definition of Museum

Museum

A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.

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Art, Collection, Curiosities, Literary, Natural, Of, Or, Repository, Scientific

Museum Quotations

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Audrey Hepburn

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
Steven Wright

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Pablo Picasso

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John Burroughs

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.
Brad Pitt

An art book is a museum without walls.
Andre Malraux

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Chuck Close

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
Edmond De Goncourt

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.
Conan O'Brien

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Abigail Van Buren

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important.
Issey Miyake

One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.
Robert T. Bakker

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
Robert T. Bakker

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
Robert T. Bakker

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
Katherine Dunham

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.
Katherine Dunham

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Arthur Eddington

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.
Norton Simon

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
Willard Van Orman Quine

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
David Rockefeller

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
David Rockefeller

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
David Rockefeller

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
David Rockefeller

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.
Isaac Mizrahi

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
Robert Smithson

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
Robert Smithson

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
Robert Smithson

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