museum

Etymology
From, from , shrine of the Muses.

Noun

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

Usage notes
The plural "musea" has always been very rare in English.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: muzeum
 * Amharic: ቤተ መዘክር
 * Arabic:
 * Chadian Arabic: موزي
 * Egyptian Arabic: متحف
 * Hijazi Arabic: متحف
 * South Levantine Arabic: متحف
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: যাদুঘৰ
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܥܸܬܩܹ̈ܐ
 * Asturian: muséu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Abjad: عجايبخانه
 * Roman:
 * Bashkir: музей
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: музе́й, музэ́й
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: muzium
 * Chechen: музей
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 博物館
 * Dungan: музей, бәвугуан
 * Eastern Min: 博物館
 * Hakka: 博物館
 * Hokkien: 博物館
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 博物館
 * Chuvash: музей
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: muzeo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: მუზეუმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: સંગ્રહસ્થાન, સંગ્રહાલય
 * Haitian Creole: mize
 * Hawaiian: hale hōʻikeʻike
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, म्यूज़ियम,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: muuzeja
 * Interlingua: museo
 * Irish: iarsmalann, músaem
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: мұражай, музей
 * Khmer: សារមន្ទីរ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: عەنتیکە خانە, مووزەخانە
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz: музей, мураскана
 * Lao:, ພິພິດທະພັນ
 * Latin: mūsēum
 * Latvian: muzejs
 * Lingao: bɔk⁸ vət⁸ kuan⁴
 * Lithuanian: muziejus
 * Livonian: muzēj
 * Luxembourgish: Musée
 * Macedonian: музе́ј
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: സംഗ്രഹാലയം, ,
 * Maori: whare (pupuri) taonga, muheama, whare tongarewa
 * Marathi: वस्तुसंग्रहालय, संग्रहालय
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: tʼáadoo leʼé danílʼį́ bił hazʼą́
 * Nepali: संग्रहालय
 * Norman: musée
 * Northern Sami: musea
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: museum
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: dibaajimowin-waakaa'igan
 * Old English: māþmhūs
 * Ossetian: музей
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Dari: مُوزِیَم
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਮਿਊਜ਼ੀਅਮ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: му̀зеј
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: කෞතුකාගාරය
 * Slovak: múzeum
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: makumbusho
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: музей
 * Telugu: సంగ్రహాలయం
 * Tetum: muzeu
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: འགྲེམ་སྟོན་ཁང, འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཁང
 * Tigrinya: ቤተ መዘክር
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: muzeý
 * Ukrainian: музе́й
 * Urdu: عَجائِب گَھر, عَجائِب خانَہ, مْیُوزِیَم
 * Uyghur: مۇزېي
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: muxèo
 * Vietnamese: nhà bảo tàng (家保藏), (院保藏)
 * Volapük:, musoföp
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Yakut: музей, мусуой
 * Yiddish: מוזיי
 * Zazaki: muze, eserxane
 * Zhuang: bozvuzgvanj

Verb

 * 1)  To place in a museum.
 * 2)  To visit museums.
 * 1)  To visit museums.
 * 1)  To visit museums.

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
, from, from.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
, from, from , from.

Noun

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

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) a place or temple devoted to the Muses
 * 2) collection, especially a private collection of scientific curiosities, instruments, etc.
 * 3) library, a collection of books
 * 4) museum
 * 1) museum

Etymology
From, from , from. First attested in the Kitab Vortaro published in 1923. .

Noun

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

Noun

 * a

Noun

 * a

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * a

Usage notes
As the first part of a compound, the form musei- is used.

Noun

 * 1) museum