museum piece
Example Sentences
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Seeing that one figure treated as a museum piece felt like a half-hearted wave to fans who grew up with Chuck.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025
“He is not merely a museum piece, but a man,” one archaeologist told The Age in 1956.
From National Geographic • Feb. 6, 2024
For Glazer, it was about creating something “in present tense, not as a museum piece or something in aspic.”
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2023
Even if now it is the very definition of a museum piece.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a singleshot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
