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- noun Plural form of
museum .
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Examples
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You will occasionally see them in museums, or shamefully, for sale in antique stores.
San Juan de Los Lagos: The Virgin, her basilica, her pilgrims, and their exvotos 2009
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With the same card you also get 25% off plane tickets 50% off in museums and so on.
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If you bend down, and look up against the light -- often a good trick in museums, because it reveals flaws and shows off the painting's surface -- you can also see that Mondrian painted the black rectangle with thin paint, so the warp and weft of the canvas shows through.
James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian James Elkins 2010
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With the same card you also get 25% off plane tickets 50% off in museums and so on.
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With the same card you also get 25% off plane tickets 50% off in museums and so on.
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If you bend down, and look up against the light -- often a good trick in museums, because it reveals flaws and shows off the painting's surface -- you can also see that Mondrian painted the black rectangle with thin paint, so the warp and weft of the canvas shows through.
James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian James Elkins 2010
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With the same card you also get 25% off plane tickets 50% off in museums and so on.
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With the same card you also get 25% off plane tickets 50% off in museums and so on.
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With the same card you also get 25% off plane tickets 50% off in museums and so on.
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With the same card you also get 25% off plane tickets 50% off in museums and so on.
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