Muse
in mythology, one of nine nymphs or inferior divinities, distinguished as the peculiar protectresses of poetry, painting, rhetoric, music, and gen erally of the belles-lettres and liberal arts. They were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory). Originally there appear to have been only three of these divinities, and their names, Mneme, Melete, and Aæde, or Memory, Reflection, and Song, sufficiently show the nature of the faculties over which they were supposed to preside. MUSEUM (-zē'-), a building or apartment appropriated as a repository of things that have an immediate relation to literature, art, or science, and where the objects may be inspected by those who are curious in such matters. Of MUSHROOM MUSKEGON the museums of Great Britain the British in music consisted in the elevation and Museum is the largest; being perhaps depression of the voice in reading sacred the greatest in the world. Museums writings and lyrical poetry, and in the illustrative of the industrial arts, though construction of pipe instruments, tubes of recent origin, are of great importance.
Foremost among institutions of this kind in Great Britain may be instanced the South Kensington Museum. All the chief capitals of Europe and many other large cities have valuable museums. New York City has two noted museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History; Boston has a Museum of Fine Arts; Chicago, the Field Columbian Museum; Philadelphia, the Bourse and Commercial Museums; Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Museum and Art Gallery; and there are other notable institutions of this character connected with several of the universities and large colleges, and also established in various cities by individual munificence.