Museum


From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
The Participatory Museum
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Wonderstruck
Kraken
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach
The Cloisters
Explorers
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It
The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)
The Sixty-Eight Rooms (Sixty-Eight Rooms, #1)
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen ArnettStill Life by Melissa MilgromThe Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate MossePsycho by Robert BlochFuriously Happy by Jenny  Lawson
Get Stuffed!
43 books — 16 voters
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyKarkhana by Waswo X. WaswoMetropolis and Hinterland by Neville MorleyCivil War St. Louis by Louis S. GerteisThe Rape of Europa by Lynn H. Nicholas
Serious History Books
38 books — 9 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierLife without Instruction by Sally  ClarkThe Madonna Painter by Michel Marc BouchardMr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder by Lawrence WeschlerThe Aleppo Codex by Matti Friedman
Books for Artists & Museum Lovers
6 books — 1 voter
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice HoffmanThe Goldfinch by Donna TarttFrom the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Best Fiction Featuring Museums
103 books — 26 voters

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownCats of the Louvre by Taiyo MatsumotoWonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Books That Feature Museums
28 books — 10 voters

“ Survival is a funny business, too. A losing game. Literally. They love us, and we lose them all. The ones who made us, the ones who gave us, the ones who sat down and played with us, the ones who held us, or just laid eyes on us. The ones who bought, traded, and sold us. Cleaned us, redeemed us, brought back the sheen on us. Loved us. Learned everything there is to know about us. ”
― Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories

Steve Brusatte
“ The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me. ...more ”
― Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

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