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Museums Books
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Wonderstruck (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as museums)
avg rating 4.16 — 59,774 ratings — published 2011
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as museums)
avg rating 4.16 — 219,517 ratings — published 1967
The Participatory Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as museums)
avg rating 4.18 — 554 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 — 26,378 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 — 1,485 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 4.06 — 2,154 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 — 2,859 ratings — published 1995
The Art of Relevance (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 685 ratings — published 2016
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as museums)
avg rating 3.39 — 72,383 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 — 35,499 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 — 213 ratings — published 2012
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,070 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 — 139 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 — 2,029 ratings — published 2020
Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.02 — 217 ratings — published 2015
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.03 — 265 ratings — published 1996
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 115,828 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 — 1,981 ratings — published 2008
A History of the World in 100 Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,406 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 3.95 — 647 ratings — published 2020
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,832 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 — 95,169 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,501 ratings — published 2008
Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 4.04 — 118 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 — 52,435 ratings — published 2009
Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.83 — 688 ratings — published 2007
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.90 — 58,739 ratings — published 2025
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,530,092 ratings — published 2003
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.92 — 97,577 ratings — published 2023
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.82 — 303 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
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.76 — 94,552 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 — 1,072 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 3.80 — 65 ratings — published 1992
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 — 423 ratings — published 2019
Meet Me at the Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,493 ratings — published 2018
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,112 ratings — published 1849
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 — 10,369 ratings — published 2010
Fundraising the Dead (Museum, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,127 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
“One of the wider purposes of our museum is to make life better worth living- not by adding luster to riches and creating pleasurable reactions to the avowedly aesthetic, but by encouraging all to discover possibilities of agreeable emotions in the contemplation of things.”
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“For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of Natural History. From an insider’s perspective, the well-known ethnologist Stan Freed engagingly introduces us to an amazing cast of explorers, eccentrics, idealists, pranksters and forbidding intellectual - an unlikely mix that played a key role in establishing the science of Anthropology as we know it today.”
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