The museum basement was both dank and dusty, a cluttered cavern that smelled like the artifacts it contained.

Model display in museum basement.

He'd probably be shuttled off to some museum basement, never to see the sky again.

"But it's locked up in a museum basement."

He wanders off in a huff, and comes to the museum basement.

There, the biggest pieces were reassembled and the remaining fragments left in crates in a museum basement.

However, a month later, the drawings were found in the museum basement.

For more than 50 years the Soviet Union hid them in museum basements and secret repositories, one reportedly in a monastery wall.

"We cannot send 'The Dog' to the museum basement because it was on the apparently nonexisting second floor of the Quinta."

"Better to sit in my refrigerator than disappear in a drawer in some museum basement," he would say.