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Wonderstruck (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as museums)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,349 ratings — published 2011
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as museums)
avg rating 4.16 — 222,948 ratings — published 1967
The Participatory Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as museums)
avg rating 4.18 — 563 ratings — published 2010
The Arnolfini Art Mysteries (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as museums)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,631 ratings — published
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as museums)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,026 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 — 1,496 ratings — published 2008
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as museums)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,955 ratings — published 2025
The Art Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as museums)
avg rating 3.14 — 4,019 ratings — published 2007
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as museums)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,201 ratings — published 2011
The Muralist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as museums)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,265 ratings — published 2015
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 — 2,907 ratings — published 1995
The Art of Relevance (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as museums)
avg rating 4.04 — 727 ratings — published 2016
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as museums)
avg rating 3.38 — 76,214 ratings — published 2022
The Improbability of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as museums)
avg rating 3.70 — 16,443 ratings — published 2015
The Gauguin Connection (Genevieve Lenard, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as museums)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,841 ratings — published 2012
The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon, #10)
by (shelved 20 times as museums)
avg rating 4.33 — 39,096 ratings — published 2010
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as museums)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,903 ratings — published 2016
Doors Open (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as museums)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,374 ratings — published 2008
The Amber Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as museums)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,010 ratings — published 2003
An Inside Job (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as museums)
avg rating 4.38 — 29,934 ratings — published 2025
The Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as museums)
avg rating 3.88 — 35,819 ratings — published 2018
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as museums)
avg rating 4.01 — 38,692 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 19 times as museums)
avg rating 3.59 — 240 ratings — published 1978
Chasing Cezanne (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as museums)
avg rating 3.55 — 4,418 ratings — published 1991
The Collector (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as museums)
avg rating 4.00 — 39,706 ratings — published 2014
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as museums)
avg rating 3.89 — 299,815 ratings — published 2005
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 — 2,175 ratings — published 2020
The Art of Theft (Lady Sherlock, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,756 ratings — published 2019
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 4.20 — 223 ratings — published 2012
Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 4.01 — 216 ratings — published 2015
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 4.03 — 273 ratings — published 1996
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,083 ratings — published 1993
The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (Culture: Policy and Politics)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 3.71 — 140 ratings — published 1995
False Impression (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 3.92 — 26,014 ratings — published 2005
The Modigliani Scandal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 3.34 — 15,992 ratings — published 1976
The Picasso Heist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 3.88 — 15,343 ratings — published 2025
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 3.93 — 706 ratings — published 2020
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 118,801 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 — 1,997 ratings — published 2008
A History of the World in 100 Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,671 ratings — published 2010
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 64 ratings — published 2005
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,854 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 — 95,772 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.62 — 74,621 ratings — published 2008
Cat Nap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,075 ratings — published 2025
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.91 — 130,949 ratings — published 2023
Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 4.04 — 126 ratings — published 2017
“Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.”
― The Ricky Gervais Show - First, Second and Third Seasons
― The Ricky Gervais Show - First, Second and Third Seasons
“We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.”
― The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
― The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
