noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a museum collection
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The specimens are now part of a fine museum collection in London.
an office/museum/hospital etc complex
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a 120-acre office complex near Las Vegas
museum piece
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Some of the weapons used by the rebels are museum pieces.
the hotel/hospital/museum etc entrance
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Our taxi pulled up outside the hotel entrance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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The profits helped pay for the great South Kensington museums .
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Pitt Rivers Museum One of the world's greatest ethnographic museums .
local
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Non-national collections, including hundreds of local authority museums and galleries, have still to begin work on their collections.
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Its linen and its china patterns are on display in the local museum .
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There are many clues hidden amongst the archives of the local library or museum .
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Abadi's goals as local museum director are scrawled on a piece of ragged pink paper: Add a few more mannequins.
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Museum loan services can also be useful, and visits to the local museums can be extremely valuable.
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Here there is a local history museum , Entlebucher Heimatmuseum, dealing with the valley; its opening hours are irregular.
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A visit to the site can include watching preservation work insitu. Local museum and visitor centre.
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One retired schoolteacher I know was working up to the age of 70 as a volunteer guide in a local museum .
major
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He curated his first Henry Moore show in 1951, and contributed major shows to museums and galleries in Britain and abroad.
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Floss your teeth in public: at the opera, in major metropolitan museums .
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It is Ryedale's major archaeological museum .
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A major museum was willing to do a great show.
national
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It's no accident that the stunning national museum in Wellington is known by the Maori name of Te Papa.
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The national museums were dark as well, and the National Mall was filled with cross-country skiers.
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With the Council's abolition in that year the Liverpool museums were given the statue of national museums and funded as such.
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It could be said that they have abandoned whole areas of their responsibility to the national museums .
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Of the 19 national museums that receive direct public grants, only eight demand a fee at the door.
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Specialist private dry cleaning of antique textiles: Bernard Dore works for the National Trust and national museums as well as dealers.
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It realises the tourists will return only if there is something left to see, not least in the national museum .
new
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The address of the new museum is Calle de la Coruna 18, Madrid.
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By the year 2000, a development partnership should be formed, rezoning accomplished and sites for new museums and memorials identified.
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Its very proximity however to these two prestigious institutions poses a problem of identity for the new museum .
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Her business has become so famous that she felt its success story merited a corner display in her new museum .
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That space will revert to galleries, as soon as central kitchens for a new museum restaurant are built elsewhere in the Met.
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Tourists will visit scores of new museums and monuments in neighborhoods now plagued by crime and decay.
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A new museum has been opened in Kassel bearing the name Museum für Sepulkralkultur.
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A much lighter topic is tackled at Paris' newest museum , the Musee de Arts Forains.
small
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His previous experience had been as assistant boss of one of the smaller London museums .
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It has an agreeable courtyard with an elegant staircase and houses a small museum dealing with the history of Funchal.
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It is the oldest place of worship in Madeira and has recently been converted into a small museum .
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A small museum and heritage centre would be maintained within the Abbey development.
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Proceeds from the auction will be used for restoration projects and the creation of small provincial museums .
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Other towns, like Nicu's fief, Sibiu, have similar though smaller museums .
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Junk shops and smaller museums became a more satisfactory hunting ground for her.
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Thus we hope to establish a small museum , ideas about which are mentioned elsewhere in this Journal.
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art
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It is the largest modern art museum in the world.
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When you want culture with a capital C, you go to an art museum .
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Major art museums may devote considerable resources to an individual artist's exhibition, on the same scale as a historical show.
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Also in Forest Park is the art museum designed by Cass Gilbert.
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A model for art museums is the catalogue of the National Gallery, London.
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Beginning last spring, art museums have been reeling from drastic cuts in government support.
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In an art museum works can be studied at leisure, and will receive attention from scholars and experts of many kinds.
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The covert activities of secret service and conspiracy theories entered the apparently benign. neutral world of the art museum .
collection
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Doubtless many more exist in museum collections .
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Despite the egress of isolated specimens, museum collections grow in proportion to the director's burden of deciding what to accept.
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The measures proposed would disrupt the entire state museum system, and would threaten museum collections .
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Unfortunately, it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection .
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Here, the value of well-documented museum collections or excavated finds can not be overstated.
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Long-standing museum collections are liable to find their status redefined as perspectives lengthen.
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A rather crudely drawn frontispiece depicts several scientific instruments and some objects from the society's museum collections .
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In other instances we read that museum collections were set on fire.
curator
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More in love with art than an artist himself, he later became a museum curator .
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The traveling exhibition was assembled by museum curator David Rubin several years ago while he was at the Cleveland Center.
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On one occasion there was a group of museum curators headed by the director of the Hermitage.
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I have had my difficulties, after all, with museum curators and eminent professors.
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Nordenfalk's book includes the scrupulous examination of visual evidence always welcome and often found in writing by a museum curator .
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Is it the responsibility of the archivist, librarian, or museum curator ?
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But what are the responsibilities of a museum curator ?
director
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Nuremberg's museum directors decide freely and independently on exhibitions and acquisitions.
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And he attacked the job performance and qualifications of museum director Steven Brezzo.
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The museum directors and critics did not name any abstract expressionist, let alone Pollock.
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Some park museum directors complain about the lack of priority given their marketing, maintenance and operational needs.
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Abadi's goals as local museum director are scrawled on a piece of ragged pink paper: Add a few more mannequins.
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The foundation merged with the new arts center when it opened in October 1994 and Shaw became museum director .
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Today's generation of museum directors here is probably not ready for such a move.
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Aimee was a gallery owner, Sommard a curator and museum director .
history
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If they were not, bird-watching and natural history museums would each go out of business.
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The present de Young, according to the mayor, could be a San Francisco history museum .
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Here there is a local history museum , Entlebucher Heimatmuseum, dealing with the valley; its opening hours are irregular.
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We walked toward the natural history museum .-What happened between you and Jessica, Brice? he asked.
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It has a ruined castle, an interesting local history museum , and its own school of painters.
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In side rooms Beuys adopts the conventions of the geological or natural history museum rather than the gallery.
piece
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We do not want fossilised museum pieces of countryside but communities with jobs and a living, dynamic and healthy social fabric.
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Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a single-shot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore.
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Those that have are museum pieces .
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Now the 1986 tax-revision measure that shut down shelters and closed some loopholes might best be called a museum piece .
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But will I been seen as a museum piece by some?
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All the planes are museum pieces , normally kept in a museum.
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After all, these chairs were built to be used, not to be museum pieces .
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He acknowledges that liturgy is not a museum piece but needs to evolve as part of a living tradition.
■ VERB
build
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He built a private museum at Driffield to display his collection.
open
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A special exhibition will open at the museum Nov. 23 to display about 90 of the works.
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At the opening of the new museum in San Francisco last year rooms or bays were similarly devoted to Polke and Kiefer.
visit
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We recently visited the Bomber Command museum at Hendon in north London, which was interesting from a nostalgic point of view.
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Want to visit the museum without leaving your home or office?
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Glasgow is an excellent town for shopping, or perhaps you would care to visit the museums , including the Burrell Collection.
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Instead, I tried to visit as many other museums as I could in just a few hours.
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The capital of Sardinia, Cagliari, is about 30 miles away and well worth visiting for its many museums and churches.
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Tourists will visit scores of new museums and monuments in neighborhoods now plagued by crime and decay.
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Study tours to the Holy Land, to learn Modern Hebrew or to visit museums and sites of interest, are encouraged.
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Rodes at the Grunwald Center recommends visiting museums with friends, so you can talk about the artwork.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Baldesaro is in New York preparing a showing at the Museum of Modern Art.
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The museum has a few of Van Gogh's early paintings.
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the Museum of Modern Art
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Does the private cultural foundation cover the running costs of the museum for the next ten years?
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Each would offer five exhibitions a year, which would then travel among the four museums.
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Fossils are more than just bones for dinosaur fans to look at in museums.
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He never fails to awe me with his ability to paint a word portrait worthy of a museum that charges admission.
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Oaxaca's philatelic museum , meanwhile, announced that it would issue a stamp bearing Morales' image and signature.
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The burglar as Renaissance man, Luther sketches Old Masters in museums.