美術館
びじゅつかん · bijutsukan · JLPT N4 · noun
gallery
🖼️🏛️ 美術館 = beauty + technique + hall: a hall for fine art
美術 (bijutsu) means fine art, literally beauty-skill. 館 (kan) is a large public building, the same ending as in 図書館 (toshokan, library) and 映画館 (eigakan, cinema). So bijutsu-kan is the art building.
美 — sheep 羊 on top + big 大 below
美 is traditionally explained as a pictograph of a person (大) wearing a large sheep or ram's-head ornament, suggesting beauty through adornment. An alternative reading takes 羊 (sheep) over 大 (big) to mean 'a big, fat sheep'—seen as delicious and pleasing, hence 'beautiful, good'.