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Wonderstruck (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as museums)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,171 ratings — published 2011
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as museums)
avg rating 4.16 — 221,920 ratings — published 1967
The Participatory Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 561 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 4.00 — 30,554 ratings — published 2023
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as museums)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,493 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 — 2,183 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 26 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,885 ratings — published 1995
The Art of Relevance (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 714 ratings — published 2016
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as museums)
avg rating 3.39 — 74,865 ratings — published 2022
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as museums)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,643 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 — 309 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 — 239 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
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as museums)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,110 ratings — published 2020
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as museums)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,076 ratings — published 1993
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 — 219 ratings — published 2012
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 4.03 — 266 ratings — published 1996
The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (Culture: Policy and Politics)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 3.71 — 139 ratings — published 1995
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 684 ratings — published 2020
Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.01 — 217 ratings — published 2015
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 117,899 ratings — published 1995
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,991 ratings — published 2008
A History of the World in 100 Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,596 ratings — published 2010
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.21 — 63 ratings — published 2005
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.89 — 65,416 ratings — published 2025
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,849 ratings — published 2019
Museum Registration Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 4.36 — 105 ratings — published 2010
Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.91 — 95,662 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,765 ratings — published 2008
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.91 — 119,926 ratings — published 2023
Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 4.04 — 124 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 3.81 — 52,958 ratings — published 2009
Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.83 — 692 ratings — published 2007
Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,117 ratings — published 1986
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.85 — 142 ratings — published 2009
Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,204 ratings — published
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,575,547 ratings — published 2003
Meet Me at the Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,138 ratings — published 2018
Creating Exhibitions: Collaboration in the Planning, Development, and Design of Innovative Experiences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.86 — 59 ratings — published 2013
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.77 — 97,054 ratings — published 2012
The Social Work of Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.59 — 32 ratings — published 2009
Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge (Heritage: Care-preservation-management)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.80 — 65 ratings — published 1992
Cat Nap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,010 ratings — published 2025
Portrait of a Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.44 — 33,083 ratings — published 2022
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 4.33 — 438 ratings — published 2019
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,583 ratings — published 1849
Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 4.02 — 137 ratings — published 2017
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.83 — 310 ratings — published 2016
Making Museums Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.89 — 130 ratings — published 2002
“I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.”
― I'll Meet You There
― I'll Meet You There
“I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life.”
― Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
― Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
