museum piece

as in artifact
something belonging to or surviving from an earlier period that old wooden ironing board she uses is a museum piece

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Recent Examples of museum piece Household items such as rugs and lamps, which themselves can be appreciated for their geometric order and symmetry, are placed in the gallery areas not as remote museum pieces but in some semblance of their practical uses. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025 More museum pieces refurbished & tested to send to the front. David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025 And the drone, though only eight years old, is a museum piece. David W. Dunlap, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025 Their main phone, of course, had a cord and was stuck to the wall in the kitchen like a museum piece. Rachel Dobkin, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for museum piece
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Noun
  • The cabinet of curiosities in the background contains strange artifacts, including the Bloodstone prop from Werewolf by Night, the Marvel TV special Giacchino directed for Disney+.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • This portfolio is, like a memory of a night in a Broadway house, an artifact of a moment.
    Mark Seliger, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That can include antiques, family heirlooms, or special mementos.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2025
  • However, these small gains are undermined by plummeting profitability across most of the art and antiques market, as prices for virtually all aspects of the business, from shipping to rent, have increased.
    Kabir Jhala, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Perched on the edge of a cliff in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Hotel Del Salto is a relic of the opulence and horrors of colonialism.
    Josh Rivera, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The current tariff gap is a relic of that old trade regime.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025

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“Museum piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/museum%20piece. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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