Museum

Borrowed from Latin Mūsēum, from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”) +‎ -εῖον (-eîon, noun-forming suffix meaning “place or building associated with a specific purpose or person”).

By surface analysis, Muse +‎ -eum.

the Museum

1. Alternative form of the Mouseion
   • 1873, The American Journal of Education, page 510:

     The Museum was thoroughly regarded in the light of an important institution of the state, and after the subjugation of Egypt by the Romans continued to be maintained by the Emperors.

   • 1893, Alfred E. P. Raymund Dowling, “A Walk in Alexandria”, in Littell's Living Age, page 179:

     Alexander never lived to see the city completed but most of the celebrated bildings we know so well by name—the Museum, Soma, Library, Gymnasium, etc.—were the work of the architect he had chosen [...]. / [...] / The Museum, the home of the Muses, was in shadow reproduced by our mediæval universities—not a place where collections of relics of the past were stored up, but where students of literature, science, or art, whether as teachers or taughts, lived together in an atmosphere of intellectual luxury.

   • 1894, “The Alexandrian Library and Museum”, in The Columbia Literary Monthly, volume 3, number 3, page 107:

     Under Roman supremacy the Museum seems to have developed into a place for higher education, studious youths flocking thither from all parts of the world to enjoy the unrivalled facilities for research which Alexandria offered, and the famous medical school, founded by Hierophilus, still flourished long after other characteristic features of intellectual life had disappeared.

Borrowed from Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).

• IPA^(key): /muˈzeːʊm/

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Museum n (strong, genitive Museums, plural Museen)

1. museum (building or institution dedicated to the protection and exhibition of items with scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value)

• “Museum”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Museum” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Museum” in Duden online
• Museum on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de