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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as museum)
avg rating 4.16 — 222,135 ratings — published 1967
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as museum)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,581,716 ratings — published 2003
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as museum)
avg rating 4.04 — 51,875 ratings — published 1997
The Participatory Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as museum)
avg rating 4.19 — 562 ratings — published 2010
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as museum)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,034 ratings — published 2023
Wonderstruck (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as museum)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,212 ratings — published 2011
Kraken (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as museum)
avg rating 3.62 — 29,298 ratings — published 2010
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as museum)
avg rating 4.05 — 118,134 ratings — published 1995
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as museum)
avg rating 4.04 — 267 ratings — published 1996
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museum)
avg rating 3.39 — 75,221 ratings — published 2022
Explorers (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as museum)
avg rating 3.68 — 399 ratings — published 2019
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museum)
avg rating 3.85 — 142 ratings — published 2009
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museum)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,121 ratings — published 2020
The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)
by (shelved 11 times as museum)
avg rating 4.26 — 57,148 ratings — published 2002
The Sixty-Eight Rooms (Sixty-Eight Rooms, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as museum)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,327 ratings — published 2010
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museum)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,080 ratings — published 1993
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums (American Association for State and Local History)
by (shelved 9 times as museum)
avg rating 3.59 — 238 ratings — published 1978
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos (Theodosia Throckmorton #1)
by (shelved 9 times as museum)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,104 ratings — published 2007
A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museum)
avg rating 4.18 — 101 ratings — published 1985
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as museum)
avg rating 3.94 — 685 ratings — published 2020
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as museum)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,493 ratings — published 2008
A Companion to Museum Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 4.00 — 95 ratings — published 2005
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 3.77 — 97,389 ratings — published 2012
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,894 ratings — published 1995
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,192 ratings — published 2011
Museum Registration Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 4.36 — 105 ratings — published 2010
Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 3.89 — 186 ratings — published 1991
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide Revised Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as museum)
avg rating 4.10 — 77 ratings — published 1983
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 3.89 — 66,136 ratings — published 2025
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,952 ratings — published 2018
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.20 — 220 ratings — published 2012
The Van Gogh Deception (The Lost Art Mysteries, 1)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,651 ratings — published 2017
The Art of Relevance (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.05 — 719 ratings — published 2016
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.19 — 64 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,066,634 ratings — published 2014
The Museum Experience Revisited (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 3.75 — 97 ratings — published 2012
The Museum: A Celebration of Art, Imagination, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.03 — 897 ratings — published 2013
The Manual of Museum Exhibitions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 4.02 — 66 ratings — published 2001
Fundraising the Dead (Museum, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,191 ratings — published 2010
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 3.71 — 308 ratings — published 2001
Making Museums Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as museum)
avg rating 3.89 — 131 ratings — published 2002
Penny & Pip (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.88 — 403 ratings — published 2023
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.91 — 122,537 ratings — published 2023
Why the Museum Matters (Why X Matters Series)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.74 — 115 ratings — published 2022
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,848 ratings — published 2019
Meet Me at the Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,225 ratings — published 2018
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 4.39 — 445 ratings — published 2018
Museums 101 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.56 — 59 ratings — published 2015
Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as museum)
avg rating 3.80 — 140 ratings — published 2016
“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.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
― The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
“Now he gets the value of the everyday stuff in the Peshwa museums. What is the culture of a place or people other than this - how we lived and how we died? What is an identity butt an accretion of all those sensations, however fleeting or slight, aroused by every encounter with the world that tells you where and among whom you belong… or do not?”
― Quarterlife
― Quarterlife
