museum

See also Museum, and .museum

English

Alternative forms

• musæum (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /mjuːˈziːəm/
• (US) IPA: /mjuˈziəm/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːəm

Noun

Wikipedia museum (plural museums or musea)

1. A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

Related terms

• museography
• museology
• museophile

Translations

building or institution

• Arabic: متحف (ar) (mátHaf) m
• Armenian: թանգարան (hy) (t'angaran)
• Asturian: muséu (ast) m
• Azeri: muzey (az)
• Belarusian: музей (be) (muzéj) m
• Bulgarian: музей (bg) (muzéj) m
• Burmese: ပြတိုက် (my) (pya.daik)
• Catalan: museu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Dungan: музей

  Mandarin: 博物館 (cmn), 博物馆 (cmn) (bówùguǎn)

• Czech: muzeum (cs) n
• Danish: museum (da)
• Dutch: museum (nl) n
• Esperanto: muzeo (eo)
• Estonian: muuseum (et)
• Finnish: museo (fi)
• French: musée (fr) m
• Galician: museo (gl) m
• German: Museum (de) n
• Greek: μουσείο (el) (mouseío) n
• Hindi: संग्रहालय (hi) (saṅgrahālay) m, म्यूज़ियम (hi) (myūziyam) m
• Hungarian: múzeum (hu)
• Icelandic: safn (is) n
• Interlingua: museo (ia)
• Irish: iarsmalann (ga) f, músaem (ga) m
• Italian: museo (it) m
• Japanese: (museum generally): 博物館 (ja) (はくぶつかん, hakubutsukan), (art museum): 美術館 (ja) (びじゅつかん, bijutsukan)
• Jèrriais: musée m
• Korean: 박물관 (ko) (bakmulgwan) (博物館 (ko))

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: عه‌نتیکه‌ خانه‌ (ku), مووزه‌خانه‌ (ku)

• Lao: ຫໍພິພິດຕະພັນ (lo)
• Luxembourgish: Muséeën (lb)
• Macedonian: музеј (mk) (muzéj) m
• Malay: muzium (ms)
• Navajo: adooléʼéʼ daʼnéílį́ biłnaʼhazʼááh
• Northern Sami: musea
• Norwegian: museum (no)
• Occitan: musèu (oc) m
• Persian: موزه (fa) (muze)
• Polish: muzeum (pl) n
• Portuguese: museu (pt) m
• Romanian: muzeu (ro) n
• Russian: музей (ru) (muzéj) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: музеј (sh) m

  Roman: mùzej (sh) m

• Sicilian: museu (scn) m
• Slovak: múzeum (sk) n
• Slovene: muzej (sl) m
• Spanish: museo (es) m
• Swedish: museum (sv) n
• Tagalog: museo (tl)
• Tetum: muzeu
• Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์ (th) (pípítpan)
• Turkish: müze (tr)
• Ukrainian: музей (uk) (muzéj) m
• Urdu: سنگرحالی (ur) (saṅgrahālay) m, میوزیم (ur) (myūziyam) m
• Venetian: muxèo m
• Vietnamese: nhà bảo tàng (vi), viện bảo tàng (vi)
• Volapük: mused (vo), (obsolete) musoföp (vo)
• Welsh: amgueddfa (cy)

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Afrikaans

Noun

museum (plural museums)

1. museum

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

museum n (plural musea or museums, diminutive museumpje)

1. museum

Derived terms

• museaal

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Noun

mūsēum (genitive mūsēī); n, second declension

1. museum

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	mūsēum	mūsēa
genitive	mūsēī	mūsēōrum
dative	mūsēō	mūsēīs
accusative	mūsēum	mūsēa
ablative	mūsēō	mūsēīs
vocative	mūsēum	mūsēa

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

Wikipedia ^no

museum

1. museum

Inflection

	singular	plural
indefinite	museum	museer
definite	museet	museene

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

museum n

1. a museum

Declension

Declension of museum

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	museum	museet	museer	museerna
genitive	museums	museets	museers	museernas

Related terms

bilmuseum flygmuseum friluftsmuseum konstmuseum länsmuseum marinmuseum musa museal museibesök

museibesökare museichef museiföremål museiföreståndare museiintendent museilektor museiman museimonter museimässig

museipedagog museipedagogisk museisal museiverksamhet museivärde nationalmuseum traktormuseum

References

• museum in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)