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Museum Books
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as museum)
avg rating 4.16 — 221,031 ratings — published 1967
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as museum)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,559,723 ratings — published 2003
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as museum)
avg rating 4.04 — 51,317 ratings — published 1997
The Participatory Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as museum)
avg rating 4.19 — 560 ratings — published 2010
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as museum)
avg rating 4.00 — 29,164 ratings — published 2023
Wonderstruck (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as museum)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,040 ratings — published 2011
Kraken (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as museum)
avg rating 3.62 — 29,066 ratings — published 2010
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as museum)
avg rating 4.05 — 117,138 ratings — published 1995
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as museum)
avg rating 4.03 — 267 ratings — published 1996
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museum)
avg rating 3.39 — 73,890 ratings — published 2022
Explorers (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as museum)
avg rating 3.68 — 397 ratings — published 2019
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museum)
avg rating 3.85 — 141 ratings — published 2009
The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)
by (shelved 11 times as museum)
avg rating 4.26 — 56,566 ratings — published 2002
The Sixty-Eight Rooms (Sixty-Eight Rooms, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as museum)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,303 ratings — published 2010
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museum)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,076 ratings — published 2020
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museum)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,072 ratings — published 1993
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums (American Association for State and Local History)
by (shelved 9 times as museum)
avg rating 3.59 — 239 ratings — published 1978
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos (Theodosia Throckmorton #1)
by (shelved 9 times as museum)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,083 ratings — published 2007
A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museum)
avg rating 4.19 — 100 ratings — published 1985
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as museum)
avg rating 3.94 — 675 ratings — published 2020
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,488 ratings — published 2008
A Companion to Museum Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 4.00 — 95 ratings — published 2005
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 3.77 — 96,360 ratings — published 2012
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,875 ratings — published 1995
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,175 ratings — published 2011
Museum Registration Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 4.36 — 104 ratings — published 2010
Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 3.89 — 185 ratings — published 1991
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide Revised Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 4.10 — 77 ratings — published 1983
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 3.89 — 63,304 ratings — published 2025
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,812 ratings — published 2018
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.21 — 216 ratings — published 2012
The Van Gogh Deception (The Lost Art Mysteries)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,594 ratings — published 2017
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.21 — 63 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,032,093 ratings — published 2014
The Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.04 — 892 ratings — published 2013
The Manual of Museum Exhibitions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.01 — 67 ratings — published 2001
Fundraising the Dead (Museum, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,145 ratings — published 2010
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 3.71 — 308 ratings — published 2001
Making Museums Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 3.90 — 131 ratings — published 2002
Penny & Pip (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.88 — 389 ratings — published 2023
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.91 — 111,737 ratings — published 2023
Why the Museum Matters (Why X Matters Series)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.79 — 110 ratings — published 2022
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,844 ratings — published 2019
Meet Me at the Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,870 ratings — published 2018
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 4.39 — 436 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Relevance (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 4.05 — 703 ratings — published 2016
Museums 101 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.55 — 58 ratings — published 2015
Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.80 — 138 ratings — published 2016
The Museum Experience Revisited (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.75 — 97 ratings — published 2012
“There's a lot of pointing. A festival of pointing and at very close range to other people's eyes, given the width of the space. Also detracting from the exhibit's potential tranquility is the display cabinet of pinned specimens along one wall. I found this disturbing from the start. You don't see a whole lot of stuffed polar bears in the polar bear exhibit at the zoo, for instance. And butterflies have phenomenal vision so it's not like they can't see the mass crucifixion in their midst. I was offended on behalf of the butterflies and thus pleased with my offense. Let the empathizing begin! This volunteering thing was working already. I am a good person, hear me give!”
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“Melvin thought about the museum inhaling so much of the world—all that history, all that spiritual juice, all the passions and laments of each visitor—without ever really exhaling.”
― Metropolitan Stories
― Metropolitan Stories
