Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
5. single built works (built environment)
6. [single built works by specific type]
7. [single built works by function]

Narrower term/s

• animal exhibition buildings[+]
  • aquariums (buildings) [+]
    • marine aquariums (buildings)
  • elephant houses
  • monkey houses
  • zoo buildings [NP]
• corn palaces
• museums (buildings)[+]
  • children's museums (buildings)
  • [museum buildings by administration] [+]
    • county museums (buildings)
    • international museums (buildings)
    • company museums (buildings)
    • national museums (buildings)
    • community museums (buildings)
    • university museums
  • [museums by form] [+]
    • open-air museums [+]
      • living history museums
  • [museums buildings by subject] [+]
    • philatelic museums (buildings)
    • religious museums (buildings)
    • fishery museums (buildings)
    • wax museums (buildings)
    • presidential libraries (buildings) [NP]
    • museums of moving images (buildings)
    • history museums (buildings) [+]
      • historic house museums (buildings)
      • historical society museums (buildings)
      • industrial museums (buildings)
      • maritime museums (buildings)
      • military museums (buildings) [+]
      • transportation museums (buildings) [+]
      • ecomuseums (buildings)
      • memorial museums
    • art museums (buildings)
    • ethnographic museums (buildings)
    • natural history museums (buildings)
    • science museums (buildings)
    • literature museums
    • cast museums (buildings)
• halls of fame
• planetaria (buildings)
• fair buildings
• galleries (buildings)

Anotations

Scope note:

Single buildings or complexes built or used exclusively or primarily for exhibitions, which are organized displays of works of art or other objects of human making. Exhibition buildings may be permanent facilities or temporary structures, as at a world's fair.