Museum


From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
The Participatory Museum
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Wonderstruck
Kraken
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach
The Cloisters
Explorers
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It
The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)
The Sixty-Eight Rooms (Sixty-Eight Rooms, #1)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice HoffmanThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttFrom the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Best Fiction Featuring Museums
103 books — 26 voters
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyKarkhana by Waswo X. WaswoMetropolis and Hinterland by Neville MorleyCivil War St. Louis by Louis S. GerteisThe Rape of Europa by Lynn H. Nicholas
Serious History Books
38 books — 9 voters

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownCats of the Louvre by Taiyo MatsumotoWonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Books That Feature Museums
28 books — 10 voters

Orhan Pamuk
“ Ist nicht eigentliches Ziel von Roman und Museum, unsere Erinnerungen so aufrichtig wie möglich zu erzählen und dadurch unser Glück in das Glück anderer zu verwandeln? ”
― Orhan Pamuk, Masumiyet Müzesi

Jean Lorrain
“ The ring which you are holding, my friend, is identical to that one. I had it cut according to the model of the king's ring, and damascened in Spain. The original is still in the Escorial; it would have been pleasant to steal it, for I easily acquire the instincts of a thief when I am in a museum, and I always find objects which have a history - especially a tragic history - uniquely attractive. I am not an Englishman for nothing - but that which is easily enough accomplished in France is not at ...more ”
― Jean Lorrain, Monsieur de Phocas

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