/myooh zee"euhm/ , n.
a building or place where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed.
[ 1605-15; museum place sacred to the Muses, building devoted to learning or the arts (referring esp. to the scholarly institute founded in Alexandria about 280 B.C.) Mouseîon, equiv. to Moûs ( a ) MUSE + -eion suffix of place ]