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Museum Island

Museum Island (Museumsinsel), Berlin: UNESCO World Heritage ensemble of five museums (Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie, Bode-Museum, Pergamonmuseum) built 1830-1930 on the Spree; Pergamon reopens partially June 2027.

Museum legislation

Museum legislation is the body of national statutes and international treaties governing museums, covering how cultural property may be exported, acquired, returned, and owned, notably under UNESCO's 1970 Convention.

Museum Mile (ミュージアムマイル) (horse)

Museum Mile (ミュージアムマイル), Japanese racehorse foaled 2022 by Leontes, won the 2025 Satsuki Sho in record 1:57.0 and the 2025 Arima Kinen; 11 starts, 5 wins, Sunday Racing, trainer Takayanagi.

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is a French public institution for natural history research, teaching, and museums, based at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Museum of Anthropology at UBC (MOA) in Vancouver, Canada: a public, research, and teaching museum founded in 1949, housed since 1976 in an Arthur Erickson building on Musqueam territory, with nearly 50,000 works and the finest collection of works by Bill Reid.

Museum of Death

Museum of Death: private museum of death-related artifacts founded June 1995 by JD Healy and Cathee Shultz in a Wyatt Earp mortuary in San Diego, now in Hollywood and New Orleans; serial killer artwork, crime scene photos, Heaven's Gate bunk beds; self-guided, no photos, no age limit.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), encyclopedic art museum founded 1870, on Huntington Avenue since 1909, with over 500,000 works; distinct from Boston's ICA and Gardner Museum, with a $6 million FY25 deficit and January 2026 layoffs of 6.3% of staff.

Museum of Flight

The Museum of Flight is an independent nonprofit air and space museum beside Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, holding 150 aircraft and describing itself as the world's largest of its kind.

Museum of Folk Architecture and Life

Museum of Folk Architecture and Life (Zakarpatskyi muzei narodnoi arkhitektury ta pobutu), Uzhhorod skansen opened 1970 on Zamkova Hill; over 30 relocated 18th-20th century wooden buildings of Boyko, Hutsul, Dolyniany, Hungarian and Romanian life.

Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine

Pyrohiv (Pirogovo), the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine, is a 133-hectare open-air museum near Kyiv founded in 1969, with about 300 folk buildings from the 16th–20th centuries across eight ethnographic sectors.

Museum of folk architecture and rural lifestyle

Belarusian State Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Lifestyle (Беларускі дзяржаўны музей народнай архітэктуры і побыту), also known as Strochitsy or Ozertso skansen: Belarus's only open-air museum, founded 1976 near Minsk, with relocated wooden buildings in three regional sectors.

Museum of Food and Drink

The Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) is a Brooklyn nonprofit museum founded by Dave Arnold in 2005, with exhibits visitors can taste, touch, and smell.

Museum of jellyfish

Museum of jellyfish: dedicated live jellyfish exhibition spaces, chiefly the Jellyfish Museum in Pompano Beach, Florida (2026, first US museum devoted solely to jellyfish) and the Музей медуз in Kyiv, both founded by Alex and Yana Yanovsky.

Museum of Jurassic Technology

Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT), founded 1988 by David and Diana Wilson at 9341 Venice Blvd, Culver City, Los Angeles: a museum blending fact, fiction, and artifice in cabinet-of-curiosities style exhibits, subject of Weschler's Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders.

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a nonprofit art museum in Midtown Manhattan, founded in 1929, with almost 200,000 modern and contemporary works, including The Starry Night.

Museum of Modern Art video game collection

MoMA's video game collection: 14 games acquired in November 2012 as interaction design under Paola Antonelli, grown to 36 by 2022, shown in Applied Design and Never Alone exhibitions.

Museum of Nature and Technology

Museum of Nature and Technology (Muzeum Przyrody i Techniki Ekomuzeum im. Jana Pazdura), Starachowice, Poland. Museum founded 2001 in a preserved 1841/1899 blast furnace plant, with Star truck, paleontology, and Archeopark exhibitions.

Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame

The Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame is the world's only polo museum, in Lake Worth, Florida, preserving polo history and honoring its greatest players and horses.

Museum of Pop Culture

Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP), formerly Experience Music Project (EMP), is a nonprofit Seattle museum at Seattle Center founded by Paul Allen in 2000, housed in Frank Gehry's 140,000-square-foot building, with 85,000+ pop culture artifacts.

Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)

The Museum of Science and Industry is a large science museum in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side, opened in 1933 and housed in the last remaining 1893 World's Fair building.

Museum of Science, Boston

The Museum of Science, Boston is a science museum at the end of the Charles River, on a site half in Boston and half in Cambridge.

Museum of the Bible

Museum of the Bible, Washington DC museum opened November 2017, 430,000 sq ft, three blocks from the Capitol, funded by the evangelical Green family of Hobby Lobby, known for artifact provenance controversies including forged Dead Sea Scroll fragments.

Museum ship

A museum ship, also called a floating museum, is a historic vessel preserved permanently as a museum exhibit or memorial, kept afloat, in dry dock, or indoors.

MUSEUM trial

MUSEUM (NCT03159078) is a phase 3, double-blind randomized trial at the Puerto Rico Trauma Hospital ICU comparing polymyxin B monotherapy versus polymyxin B-carbapenem (imipenem) combination therapy in critically ill trauma patients with multidrug-resistant gram-negative infections; planned enrollment 40, no results posted.

Musgrave Telegraph Station

Musgrave Telegraph Station is a heritage-listed former telegraph station on the Cape York Telegraph Line in central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, opened in 1886 and now the Musgrave Roadhouse.

Mush (crater on Ganymede)

Mush is a 99-km-diameter impact crater on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, centered at −15.12°, 114.77°, named for a Sumerian serpent-bodied male deity and approved by the IAU in 1985.

Mush wa Gurba

Mush wa Gurba (موش و گربه, Qiṣṣah-i Mūsh va Gurbah), also known as Mūshnāmah, is a Persian mock-epic satire about a tyrannical cat tormenting virtuous mice.

Musha Incident

Musha Incident (霧社事件, Wushe Incident), 1930 Seediq indigenous uprising against Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan; six tribes led by Mona Rudao killed 134 at a school sports meet, and Japan's poison-gas suppression nearly destroyed the tribe.

Mushabbak Basilica

Mushabbak Basilica (Mushabbaq), a fifth-century Byzantine columned basilica church 25 km west of Aleppo in Syria's Dead Cities; the region's most complete surviving church, likely linked to St. Simeon pilgrimage.

Mushaira

Mushaira (مشاعرہ) is an Urdu poetic symposium, also called mehfil or bazm, where poets recite their verses before an audience that responds with calls of appreciation.