Museums

A museum (/mjuˈziːəm/; myoo-zee-um) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and some public museums makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public. The goal of serving researchers is increasingl ...more

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
The Metropolitan Affair (On Central Park, #1)
How Dinosaurs Went Extinct: A Safety Guide
Friends of the Museum
Letters to Camondo
One Woman Show
The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I.M. Pei
Decolonize Museums (Decolonize That!)
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
The Museum of Forgotten Memories
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
Doodleville #2: Art Attacks!: (A Graphic Novel)
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
Information Desk: An Epic
Wonderstruck
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Participatory Museum
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
The Art of Relevance
The Cloisters
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums (American Association for State and Local History)
Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett JohnsonThe Dot by Peter H. ReynoldsMouse Paint by Ellen Stoll WalshIsh by Peter H. ReynoldsArt & Max by David Wiesner
Children Books About Art
276 books — 158 voters
Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christina BjörkThe Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau by Michelle MarkelThe Museum by Susan VerdeYou Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum by Jacqueline Preiss WeitzmanYou Can't Take a Balloon into the National Gallery by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman
Picture Books About Museums
74 books — 26 voters

Protest Tautohetohe by Stephanie GibsonMy New Zealand 123 Book by Te Papa PressMy New Zealand ABC Book by Te Papa PressMy New Zealand Colours Book by Te Papa PressMuseum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa by Te Papa Press
Te Papa Press
45 books — 2 voters



Rick Riordan
We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world? ...more
Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

Michael Finkel
Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous.
Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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