{
    "term": "museum",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/ci/city.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a building in which objects of artistic, cultural, historical or scientific interest are kept and shown to the public",
            "sensetop": "at/in a museum",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a museum of modern art"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a science museum"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They **visited museums** and galleries throughout the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's the director of a new museum."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The items will go on display at the museum next year.",
                    "contextForm": "at/in a museum"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a museum director/curator"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her prints are in major museum collections."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He founded a museum of modern art in his home town."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Although the mill is no longer in commercial use, it is maintained as a working museum."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Los Angeles County Art Museum"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The first painting acquired by the museum was by Hopper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The museum's collection includes a broad range of furniture, textiles and jewellery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The museum houses a fine collection of textiles."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The museum is housed in a converted church."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The website's print gallery is a virtual museum."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's a gift shop in the museum."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a museum devoted to children's toys"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an exhibition of Chinese ceramics at the Ashmolean Museum"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an open-air museum of farming and the countryside"
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of the world's great museums"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["excellent", "fascinating", "great"],
                "verb + museum": ["go to", "visit", "tour"],
                "museum + verb": [
                    "open",
                    "be dedicated to somebody/​something",
                    "be devoted to something"
                ],
                "museum + noun": ["building", "complex", "gallery"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the museum", "in a/​the museum", "museum of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mjuˈziːəm/",
                "audio": "mu/museum/museum__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mjuˈziːəm/",
                "audio": "mu/museum/museum__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (denoting a university building, specifically one erected at Alexandria by Ptolemy Soter): via Latin from Greek mouseion ‘seat of the Muses’, based on mousa ‘muse’."
}