Museum vs. Gallery

Museumnoun

A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

Museumnoun

A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.

Museumnoun

a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value

Museumnoun

a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited

Museum

A museum ( mew-ZEE-əm; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.

Gallerynoun

An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.

Gallerynoun

An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.

Gallerynoun

The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.

Gallerynoun

A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side

Gallerynoun

The spectators of an event, collectively.

Gallerynoun

(computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.

Gallerynoun

(fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.

Gallerynoun

(mining) a level or drive in a mine.

Galleryverb

(Trinidad and Tobago) To show off

Gallerynoun

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

Gallerynoun

A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

Gallerynoun

A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; - sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

Gallerynoun

A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, - seldom found in vessels built since 1850.

Gallerynoun

Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.

Gallerynoun

A working drift or level.

Gallerynoun

spectators at a golf or tennis match

Gallerynoun

a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

Gallerynoun

a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited

Gallerynoun

a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose;

Gallerynoun

a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)

Gallerynoun

narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade

Gallerynoun

a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine;

Gallerynoun

a room or building for the display or sale of works of art

Gallerynoun

a collection of pictures

Gallerynoun

a balcony or upper floor projecting from an interior back or side wall of a hall or church, providing space for an audience or musicians

Gallerynoun

the highest balcony in a theatre, containing the cheapest seats.

Gallerynoun

a group of spectators, especially those at a golf tournament

Gallerynoun

a long room or passage, typically one that is partly open at the side to form a portico or colonnade.

Gallerynoun

a horizontal underground passage, especially in a mine