museum

• n. 美術館

Muse、ミューズ、-um、場所から。文字通り、ミューズたちの聖域、ミューズたちとの対話の場。古代ギリシャでは、学校、図書館、美術学校を指す言葉として使われたが、現在では図書館にのみ使われる。

museum

museum: [17] Etymologically, a museum is a place devoted to the ‘muses’. It comes via Latin mūsēum ‘library, study’ from Greek mouseion ‘place of the muses’, a noun based on the adjective mouseios ‘of the muses’. This in turn was derived from mousa ‘muse’, source of English muse [14]. Other English words from the same source are mosaic and music. But muse ‘ponder’ is not related; it comes, like its first cousin amuse, from Old French muse ‘animal’s mouth’.
=> mosaic, muse, music

museum (n.)

1610s, "the university building in Alexandria," from Latin museum "library, study," from Greek mouseion "place of study, library or museum, school of art or poetry," originally "a seat or shrine of the Muses," from Mousa "Muse" (see muse (n.)). Earliest use in reference to English institutions was of libraries (such as the British Museum); sense of "building to display objects" first recorded 1680s.

1. The museum will have a permanent exhibition of 60 vintage cars.

この博物館では、60台のおじいさんの車が長期展示されます。

2.Mr Morris feels the museum is using advertising to good effect.

モリス氏は、博物館の広告は効果的だと考えている。

3.At that instant the museum was plunged into tal darkness.

その時、博物館は真っ暗になった。

4.Barely had the bulldozers started when Museum of London archaeologists swooped.

ブルドーザーが起動するや否や、ロンドン博物館の考古学者たちが押し寄せた。

5.A visit to the Museum is an unforgettable experience.

博物館見学は忘れられない経験だ。