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Museums Books
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Wonderstruck (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as museums)
avg rating 4.16 — 59,644 ratings — published 2011
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as museums)
avg rating 4.16 — 218,712 ratings — published 1967
The Participatory Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 555 ratings — published 2010
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as museums)
avg rating 4.01 — 24,805 ratings — published 2023
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as museums)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,481 ratings — published 2008
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,143 ratings — published 2011
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as museums)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,852 ratings — published 1995
The Art of Relevance (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as museums)
avg rating 4.06 — 681 ratings — published 2016
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as museums)
avg rating 3.39 — 71,571 ratings — published 2022
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as museums)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,990 ratings — published 2018
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as museums)
avg rating 3.71 — 308 ratings — published 2001
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums (American Association for State and Local History)
by (shelved 18 times as museums)
avg rating 3.59 — 241 ratings — published 1978
Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as museums)
avg rating 3.89 — 186 ratings — published 1991
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 4.21 — 212 ratings — published 2012
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,066 ratings — published 1993
The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (Culture: Policy and Politics)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 3.72 — 138 ratings — published 1995
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,011 ratings — published 2020
Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.04 — 214 ratings — published 2015
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.03 — 263 ratings — published 1996
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 115,200 ratings — published 1995
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,976 ratings — published 2008
A History of the World in 100 Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,344 ratings — published 2010
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.20 — 61 ratings — published 2005
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 633 ratings — published 2020
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,830 ratings — published 2019
Museum Registration Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 4.35 — 105 ratings — published 2010
Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.92 — 94,997 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,106 ratings — published 2008
Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 4.03 — 116 ratings — published 2017
A Life in Museums: Managing Your Museum Career (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.80 — 55 ratings — published 2012
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.80 — 52,264 ratings — published 2009
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.90 — 54,582 ratings — published 2025
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,511,992 ratings — published 2003
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.84 — 305 ratings — published 2016
Creating Exhibitions: Collaboration in the Planning, Development, and Design of Innovative Experiences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.90 — 58 ratings — published 2013
Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.83 — 686 ratings — published 2007
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.76 — 93,798 ratings — published 2012
The Social Work of Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.65 — 31 ratings — published 2009
Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,066 ratings — published 1986
The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 4.26 — 189 ratings — published 2004
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.88 — 141 ratings — published 2009
Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge (Heritage: Care-preservation-management)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.81 — 64 ratings — published 1992
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.92 — 89,820 ratings — published 2023
A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 4.32 — 418 ratings — published 2019
Meet Me at the Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,338 ratings — published 2018
Making Museums Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.90 — 132 ratings — published 2002
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,338 ratings — published 2010
Fundraising the Dead (Museum, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,105 ratings — published 2010
Do Museums Still Need Objects? (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.42 — 88 ratings — published 2009
Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,321 ratings — published 2006
“Everything you want to do in the presence of a compelling [art] piece is forbidden in a museum . . .”
― The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
― The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
“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?”
― The Red Pyramid
― The Red Pyramid
