museum piece

Example Sentences

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Building cocktails out of historic spirits like this might almost seem like a waste; the more logical impulse is to drink them neat, pondering the rarity of it all like a kind of liquid museum piece.

From Los Angeles Times

Even if now it is the very definition of a museum piece.

From New York Times

But the aviation enthusiasts didn't just want it to be a museum piece, the plan was for it to fly as well.

From BBC

The recording of racist banter by Los Angeles Latino council members is a sad museum piece.

From Washington Post

It would require more briskness and directorial ingenuity to make Barry’s Jazz Age hit more than a pleasant-enough museum piece.

From Washington Post