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
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
Explorers
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience
The Cloisters
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
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
Awake by Melanie SuraniCats of the Louvre by Taiyo MatsumotoThe Smithsonian Institution by Gore VidalRelic by Douglas PrestonDark Museum by Melanie Surani
books based in a museum
14 books — 11 voters

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. KonigsburgImpossible Views of the World by Lucy Ives
Best Fiction Featuring Museums
100 books — 24 voters
Museums in Motion by Edward P. AlexanderGender Perspectives by Jane R. GlaserReinventing the Museum by Gail  AndersonNew Town Square by Robert R ArchibaldExhibitions in Museums by Michael Belcher
MSU M.A. ~ Museum Studies
58 books — 1 voter

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    BrownWonderstruck by Brian SelznickCats of the Louvre by Taiyo Matsumoto
Books That Feature Museums
28 books — 10 voters
Vagabonds in France by Michael  A. BarryTo the Letter by Simon GarfieldJust My Type by Simon GarfieldDiary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska by Maria Faustyna KowalskaTe hooi en te gras by Rien Poortvliet
I want to know more about this world
107 books — 8 voters

Jean Lorrain
The ring which you are holding, my friend, is identical to that one. I had it cut according to the model of the king's ring, and damascened in Spain. The original is still in the Escorial; it would have been pleasant to steal it, for I easily acquire the instincts of a thief when I am in a museum, and I always find objects which have a history - especially a tragic history - uniquely attractive. I am not an Englishman for nothing - but that which is easily enough accomplished in France is not at ...more
Jean Lorrain, Monsieur de Phocas

Our lives are devoted to our absence—to the idea that no trace of ourselves should be left in our work.
Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories

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