Depository vs. Museum — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Depository and Museum
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Depository
A place where something is deposited, as for storage or safekeeping; a repository.
Museum
A museum ( mew-ZEE-əm; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.
Depository
A place where something is deposited, as for storage, safekeeping, or preservation; a repository.
Museum
A building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited
The Museum of Modern Art
A museum curator
The museum is noted for its fine fossil collection
It is difficult to avoid the feeling that the city is now a living museum
Depository
A trustee; a depositary.
Depository library
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Museum
A building, place, or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.
Depository
A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.
Museum
A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
Visit the history museum
They're opening a new coin exhibition at the local museum.
Depository
One with whom something is deposited; a depositary.
I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me.
Museum
A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
Depository
A facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
Museum
A depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value
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