The word 'museum' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word 'museum' when referring to a building or institution dedicated to preserving and exhibiting objects of historical, scientific, cultural, or artistic interest. For example, "I visited the Louvre museum yesterday."
The uniform worn by his commanding officer, General Sir Richard Nelson "Windy" Gale, is now displayed in a museum that Prince Charles opened in 2000 and the old Pegasus Bridge, replaced by a new bridge in 1994 and left to rot in a field, has been cleaned up and preserved.
Since when has a major equivalent museum (National Gallery, Louvre or Prado) had as its remit the requirement to be "fun" (Tate Britain needs to put the fun into art, 2 April)?
Although deputy mayor Jaroslaw Jozwiak says a final decision has not yet been made and this does not represent a liquidation of the museum and its collections, there is no doubt that the loss of this recognised small museum will mean less access to its 20,000 drawings and research facilities.
This time, filming on a tight budget in Hungary, Strickland borrowed butterfly collections from Budapest's museum of natural history and then faced a big decision: should he hire expert advice from a dominatrix or a lepidopterist?
Comprising three once grand houses, and furnished with antique mirrors, desks, cabinets, clocks, statues, lamps and paintings, it's like an underfunded museum with comfortable beds.
Standing on the edge of town, the museum Shear Outback pays homage to the work of shearers, a more common Australian legend than the migrant grower of the irrigation towns.
With events taking place at venues ranging from tiny, niche museums in Orkney and Norfolk to national giants such at the Natural History Museum and the V&A, the founding ethos of the festival is to celebrate the diverse and often quirky cultural landscape of Britain and to give a voice and platform to smaller institutions.
There is also a telephone to which only the band's ex-members have the number: if it rings and a museum-goer picks it up, they will find themselves in the disconcerting position of holding a conversation with one of Abba while standing in front of a vast floor-to ceiling photograph of Abba.
Along with the Graves, the museums trust also runs Weston Park Museum, which focuses on social and natural history, and the city-centre Millennium Gallery, devoted to art, craft and design.
In the entrance to the Abba Museum in Stockholm on Tuesday, the owner of the first ticket to Sweden's newest tourist attraction proudly displays his prize.
"We deplore the categorical refusal by the British of Unesco's invitation to launch a mediation process over the Parthenon sculptures housed in the British Museum," the cultural minister had said.
