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Museum vs Memorial - What's the difference?

museum | memorial |

As nouns the difference between museum and memorial

is that 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 while memorial is a structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event.

As an adjective memorial is

serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.

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.

    • Related terms

    * museography * museology * museophile * museum beetle * museum pest

    memorial

    English

    (wikipedia memorial)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event
  • A service of remembrance or commemoration
  • (legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
    • a memorial building
  • * Alexander Pope
    • There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.
  • Contained in the memory.
    • a memorial possession
  • Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
  • * Skeat
    • This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.