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museum

[myoo-zee-uhm] / myuˈzi əm /


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In his homily, Pope Leo said Spaniards should not look at religion as "a museum of the past to be visited, but a school of faith from which to draw even today".

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

The pieces were on loan from a Bucharest museum, whose head was promptly sacked for lending the works out in the first place.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

“Each time the museum responds to the rainforest — it can be Amazonia, Indonesia, Australia — the resultant acoustic archive grows.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

The former head of the national history museum in Bucharest, Ernest Oberländer-Târnoveanu, faced considerable domestic criticism for loaning the gold objects abroad and lost his job within days of the theft.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

They’d both gone unnoticed because the Louvre wasn’t just an art museum.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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