Sentence examples for museum plays from inspiring English sources

Next to Making Do is a room in which Tacita Dean's characteristically slippery film, Manhattan Mouse Museum, plays.

Centered around the furniture of the Old Kingdom queen, the mother of the builder of the Great Pyramid -- many of the more spectacular pieces are actually replicas of originals now housed in the Cairo Museum -- the gallery draws attention to the important role this museum played in the history of Egyptology.

Could a new museum play a similar role in British cultural life?

The ship that houses the museum played a minor role in the space program, picking up astronauts after they splashed down upon returning from space.

Like the opening scenes of a movie, the first few minutes inside a museum play a crucial part in the attraction process.

As the centerpiece of the National Museum here, the 2,800-year-old 2,800-year-old 2,800-year-olda's rich scientific and cultural history, and of the prominent role the museum played years before the street outside became known as Sniper Alley.

Some of the art displays on the main two floors of the museum play on the institution's diverse nature; a recent traveling exhibition, "Space Is the Place," combined paintings on a theme of interplanetary exploration with audio installations and other attention-grabbing pieces.

"But there still seems to be this limited understanding of the role museums play in this.

"Our museums play a vital role at the heart of the communities," she says.

After decades in which museums played down the fate of slaves, he said, "I think people are coming around and getting out of their comfort zones".

Museums play a significant role in studies like this because they house large collections of bird specimens that provide the DNA necessary to support such vast studies.