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  • adjective Resembling a museum; especially, full of antiquities or memorabilia

Etymologies

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museum +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The ground floor consists of a series of museumlike ordened spaces, offering varying views of the lake and the surroundings.

    Villa Röling by Paul de Ruiter 2009

  • Indeed, despite its museumlike atmosphere, the White House remains a home.

    Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

  • Indeed, despite its museumlike atmosphere, the White House remains a home.

    Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

  • After you enter (adult admission: $19.95), the first thing you'll encounter is the very un-museumlike 85-foot-high "Sky Church."

    Seattle's Purple Haze 2008

  • A boy and girl in one of the murals sat in a booth with ice-cream sundaes and frosty glasses of water and long-handled spoons for the sundaes and the scene was not contrived to be charming but was close to documentary in tone and the whole place was a little museumlike, I thought, with time compressed and objects arrayed of evolutionary interest.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • A boy and girl in one of the murals sat in a booth with ice-cream sundaes and frosty glasses of water and long-handled spoons for the sundaes and the scene was not contrived to be charming but was close to documentary in tone and the whole place was a little museumlike, I thought, with time compressed and objects arrayed of evolutionary interest.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • A boy and girl in one of the murals sat in a booth with ice-cream sundaes and frosty glasses of water and long-handled spoons for the sundaes and the scene was not contrived to be charming but was close to documentary in tone and the whole place was a little museumlike, I thought, with time compressed and objects arrayed of evolutionary interest.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Tsimmis In this museumlike Jewish restaurant, every nook and cranny is filled with doodads evoking Russian shtetl life.

    Tip Sheet 2007

  • She was mostly recovered from her unpleasant encounter with the Horrible Harry, and the hushed museumlike atmosphere of Landon House further soothed her nerves.

    Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006

  • We're still dressing the same way we dressed, you know, 150 years ago for concerts, and the experience, a lot of it is museumlike and reverential, in a certain way.

    Marin Alsop Takes over Baltimore Symphony 2005

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