Museum


From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
The Participatory Museum
Wonderstruck
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Kraken
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach
The Cloisters
Explorers
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience
The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)
The Sixty-Eight Rooms (Sixty-Eight Rooms, #1)
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyThe Rape of Europa by Lynn H. NicholasCivil War St. Louis by Louis S. GerteisMetropolis and Hinterland by Neville MorleyNever Call Retreat by Bruce Catton
Serious History Books
37 books — 9 voters
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis BorgesOn Longing by Susan StewartA Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis BorgesTechnology as Magic by Richard Stivers
For Seminar
13 books — 2 voters

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrCats of the Louvre by Taiyo MatsumotoWonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Books That Feature Museums
28 books — 10 voters
Awake by Melanie SuraniCats of the Louvre by Taiyo MatsumotoThe Smithsonian Institution by Gore VidalRelic by Douglas PrestonTherianthropy by Jane   Yates
books based in a museum
15 books — 12 voters

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen ArnettStill Life by Melissa MilgromThe Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate MosseFuriously Happy by Jenny  LawsonThe Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
Get Stuffed!
30 books — 11 voters

Elizabeth Kostova
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye? ...more
Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves

Lois Lowry
...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old. ...more
Lois Lowry, Messenger

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