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Spell Bee Word: Museum


What does museum mean?

Word: Museum

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Museum means a building where old, rare or interesting things are kept so that people can come and look at them.

How do you spell museum?

Syllables: mu - se - um

Tricky part: The e and the u sit side by side in the middle, e first. Many children swap them and write musuem.

Watch out for: musuem, museam

Memory tip: A museum keeps old things in the right order, and so must you in the middle of the word: e first, then u.

Museum in a sentence

Example 1: We saw a real mummy at the museum in Hyderabad.

Example 2: The museum has a whole room full of old coins.

Example 3: Our class trip to the science museum was the best day of the term.

Fun Fact

The Indian Museum in Kolkata, opened in 1814, is the oldest museum in India.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) galary
b) exibit
c) histery
d) museum

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d) museum. Each of the others has lost or swapped a letter: think of history, gallery and exhibit.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

esumum

a) museum
b) umseum
c) sumeum
d) msueum

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a) museum. Msueum, umseum and sumeum keep the e before the u but put the m, s or u at the start in the wrong place.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

On Saturday we saw a huge dinosaur skeleton at the city muzeum.

a) muzeum
b) Saturday
c) dinosaur
d) skeleton

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a) muzeum. The middle sound is written with an s, even though it sounds like z.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

m_seum

a) i
b) a
c) o
d) u

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d) u. Museum starts mu, the same as music.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A museum is mainly a place for ____.

a) lending books to read at home
b) selling toys and games
c) looking after sick animals
d) showing old and rare objects

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d) showing old and rare objects

2. The person in charge of a museum's collection is its ____.

a) librarian
b) curator
c) conductor
d) architect

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b) curator

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