museum piece
Example Sentences
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It closed in 1981 before the surface site was turned into a museum piece three years later.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
“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
This isn’t Mozart as a museum piece, porcelain to be handled with delicacy.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022
The method of loci isn’t a museum piece on the personal level either.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
