Museums

A museum (/mjuˈziːəm/; myoo-zee-um) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and some public museums makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public. The goal of serving researchers is increasingl ...more

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
The Metropolitan Affair (On Central Park, #1)
How Dinosaurs Went Extinct: A Safety Guide
Friends of the Museum
Letters to Camondo
One Woman Show
The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I.M. Pei
Decolonize Museums (Decolonize That!)
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
The Museum of Forgotten Memories
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
Doodleville #2: Art Attacks!: (A Graphic Novel)
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
Information Desk: An Epic
Wonderstruck
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Participatory Museum
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
The Art of Relevance
The Cloisters
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums (American Association for State and Local History)
Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eiren Caffall
You don’t know they’ll be white. Maybe the Cloisters is full of Black people, and you’re the right person to knock on the door.” I could hear a cross laugh in Keller’s quiet voice. “I’m pretty sure that the people who set up shop in a castle are going to be white. Museums: last refuge of the ruling class.
Eiren Caffall, All the Water in the World

Dara Horn
When a young employee at the Anne Fank House tried to wear his yarmulke to work, his employers told him to hide it under a baseball cap. The museum's gal was "neutrality," one spokesperson explained to the British newspaper Daily Mail, and a live Jew in a yarmulke might "interfere" with the museum's "independent position." The museum finally relented after deliberated for four months, which seems like a rather long time for the Anne Frank House to ponder whether it was a good idea to force a Jew ...more
Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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