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 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 Signs like this are museum pieces that are out there still doing their thing, as much as the Statue of Liberty or the Washington Monument, and they should be celebrated, not gutted. Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2024 There’s also a museum piece, which is mostly fake. Peter White, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for museum piece
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Noun
  • The $15 admission ticket grants you access to the original 19th-century Italianate villa, the classic boxwood parterre garden, and a museum filled with photos and other artifacts detailing the Barnsley family's history.
    Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 31 May 2025
  • With a super-bright laser light engine, image speckle, as in grainy, shimmering artifacts, can become an issue.
    Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • The beginning McPheeters has been selling antiques for almost 60 years.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
  • Photo: Eytan Stern Weber/Evan Joseph Images The doors (left) may be antiques and lead out to the northwest corner of the terrace, with views up to Central Park.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • But the Mayor’s Management Report (MMR), launched in 1977, is a relic — thousands of stats that don’t answer the only question that matters: is government actually solving problems?
    Melanie La Rocca, New York Daily News, 27 May 2025
  • This is why gold has glittered year to date, and why the yellow relic’s move higher is likely to continue.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025

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“Museum piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/museum%20piece. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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