American Museum may refer to
- American Museum of Radio and Electricity
- American Museum of Natural History
- American Museum of the Moving Image
- American Museum of Magic
- American Museum of Science and Energy
- American Museum in Britain
- Barnum's American Museum
- The American Museum (magazine), an 18th-century American magazine
- The American Museum, a 19th-century American magazine published by Nathan C. Brooks
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or museum:
“The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)