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What is the difference between gallery and museum?

gallery | museum |

As nouns the difference between gallery and museum

is that gallery is an institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art while museum is a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

gallery

Noun

(galleries)
  • An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.
  • An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
  • Uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
  • A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side
  • as a whole, the spectators of an event.
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  • , year=2011 , date=November 12 , author= , title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Capello was missing his son's wedding in Milan to take charge – yet his reshaped England team gave him cause for a double celebration as they overturned the odds in front of a delighted Wembley gallery .}}
  • A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
  • a gallery of image thumbnails
    a clip-art gallery in a wordprocessor

    Derived terms

    * peanut gallery * rogues' gallery

    Anagrams

    * allergy * largely * regally

    museum

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (wikipedia museum) (en-noun)
  • A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.