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A building or institution in which objects of historical, scientific, or artistic importance are collected, preserved, and shown to the public.
Am Wochenende besuchen wir das Technische Museum in Berlin.
At the weekend, we are visiting the Technical Museum in Berlin.
The word 'Museum' (museum) is often used as the base word for more specific names. The topic is placed before it, e.g. 'Kunstmuseum' (art museum), 'Technikmuseum' (technology museum), or 'Naturkundemuseum' (natural history museum).
Das Deutsche Museum in München ist ein berühmtes Technikmuseum.
The Deutsches Museum in Munich is a famous technology museum.
With the word 'Museum' (museum), the preposition 'in' is very important. Movement to a museum is expressed with 'ins Museum' (in + das), while being there is described with 'im Museum' (in + dem).
Wir gehen am Nachmittag ins Museum.
We are going to the museum in the afternoon.
Common verbs used with 'Museum' (museum) are 'ein Museum besuchen' (to visit a museum), 'in ein Museum gehen' (to go to a museum), or 'etwas in einem Museum ausstellen' (to exhibit something in a museum).
Letztes Jahr habe ich über zwanzig Museen besucht.
Last year I visited more than twenty museums.
exhibition / issuing
'das Museum' and 'die Ausstellung' often go together because you can visit exhibitions in museums. A 'Museum' is the place or institution that collects, preserves, and displays things. An 'Ausstellung' is the presentation itself, that is, a specific show of artworks or other objects. Learners easily confuse the words because in everyday life people say, 'Ich gehe ins Museum' (I'm going to the museum), even though what they actually look at there is an exhibition. 'Museum' means the place; 'Ausstellung' means the program or the objects being shown.
Heute besuchen wir mit der Familie das Museum am Fluss.
Today we are visiting the museum by the river with the family.
Die Ausstellung über moderne Fotografie endet nächste Woche.
The exhibition on modern photography ends next week.