museum

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

museum
    n 1: a depository for collecting and displaying objects having
         scientific or historical or artistic value

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Museum \Mu*se"um\, n. [L., a temple of the Muses, hence, a place
   of study, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? a Muse.]
   A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or
   literary curiosities, or of works of art.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Museum beetle}, {Museum pest}. (Zool.) See {Anthrenus}.
      [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

museum

   Museums on the Web
   (http://comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html).
   (http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/museums.html).

   (1995-03-16)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

54 Moby Thesaurus words for "museum":
      British Museum, Festschrift, Guggenheim Museum, Hermitage,
      Indian reservation, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, National Gallery,
      Prado, Rijksmuseum, Tate Gallery, Uffizi, ana, anthology, aquarium,
      archives, art gallery, bank, bird sanctuary, body, chrestomathy,
      collectanea, collection, compilation, corpus, curatorship, data,
      florilegium, forest preserve, fund, gallery, game reserve,
      holdings, library, menagerie, museology, national forest,
      national park, paradise, park, picture gallery, pinacotheca,
      preserve, raw data, reservation, reserve, salon, sanctuary,
      state forest, store, treasure, wilderness preserve,
      wildlife preserve, zoo