12 Metaphors for museums

"What's the good," she said, "of carrying a baby not two years old to the Tower of London, the British Museum, and the Chapel of Henry VII.?

"Dime museum," was the answer.

The museum itself is about sixty feet in length by twenty-five feet broad, its ceiling composed entirely of looking-glasses, its parquet flooring strewn with priceless Persian rugs and carpets.

But marvels heaped together cease to be marvellous, and of all places in the world a museum is the most tiresome.

The principal museums in Rome are the Christian and the Gregorianum Lateranense in the Lateran; the Etruscan, the Egyptian and the Museum of Christian Antiquities in the Vatican; and the Capitoline Museum, on Capitoline Hill.

Now Egyptian mummies are the bodies of the dead, and this Museum is an authorised place for their reception; and this building is situate within the boundaries of the parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

But the museum is not the only thing that has given Frank the name of the "young naturalist."

Can one doubt that such a Museum must be an element of artistic development in those who are in contact with it?

The museum was a gift from my wife.

His museum was so famous that in 1483 Lorenzo de' Medici, passing through Mantua from Venice, thought it worthy of a visit.

The museum of Greek and Roman antiquities attached to it, and which the house of Biscari has been collecting for many years, is probably the finest in Sicily.

Mr. Green's Museum was much admired, and Mr. Newton's china.

12 Metaphors for  museums