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Museums Books
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Wonderstruck (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as museums)
avg rating 4.17 — 59,951 ratings — published 2011
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as museums)
avg rating 4.16 — 220,487 ratings — published 1967
The Participatory Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 556 ratings — published 2010
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as museums)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,486 ratings — published 2008
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as museums)
avg rating 4.00 — 28,249 ratings — published 2023
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,169 ratings — published 2011
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,876 ratings — published 1995
The Art of Relevance (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 703 ratings — published 2016
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as museums)
avg rating 3.39 — 73,382 ratings — published 2022
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as museums)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,394 ratings — published 2018
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as museums)
avg rating 3.71 — 308 ratings — published 2001
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums (American Association for State and Local History)
by (shelved 18 times as museums)
avg rating 3.59 — 240 ratings — published 1978
Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as museums)
avg rating 3.89 — 186 ratings — published 1991
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,055 ratings — published 2020
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 4.20 — 215 ratings — published 2012
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,071 ratings — published 1993
The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (Culture: Policy and Politics)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 3.72 — 140 ratings — published 1995
Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.02 — 219 ratings — published 2015
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.03 — 265 ratings — published 1996
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 116,665 ratings — published 1995
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,983 ratings — published 2008
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 662 ratings — published 2020
A History of the World in 100 Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,465 ratings — published 2010
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.21 — 63 ratings — published 2005
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,841 ratings — published 2019
Museum Registration Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 4.36 — 104 ratings — published 2010
Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.91 — 95,405 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,001 ratings — published 2008
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.89 — 61,990 ratings — published 2025
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.92 — 106,810 ratings — published 2023
Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 4.04 — 121 ratings — published 2017
A Life in Museums: Managing Your Museum Career (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.80 — 55 ratings — published 2012
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.81 — 52,662 ratings — published 2009
Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.83 — 689 ratings — published 2007
The Social Work of Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.59 — 32 ratings — published 2009
Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,080 ratings — published 1986
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,548,834 ratings — published 2003
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.82 — 305 ratings — published 2016
Creating Exhibitions: Collaboration in the Planning, Development, and Design of Innovative Experiences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.86 — 59 ratings — published 2013
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.77 — 95,616 ratings — published 2012
The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 4.26 — 187 ratings — published 2004
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.87 — 141 ratings — published 2009
Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge (Heritage: Care-preservation-management)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.80 — 65 ratings — published 1992
Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 4.14 — 991 ratings — published
A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 4.33 — 426 ratings — published 2019
Meet Me at the Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,726 ratings — published 2018
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,295 ratings — published 1849
Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 4.02 — 135 ratings — published 2017
Making Museums Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.90 — 131 ratings — published 2002
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,414 ratings — published 2010
“When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said:
In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some balance to American anthropological history, and that the best place to start was with museums—
where the story began. The more I delved into the archives, the more I was fascinated. I was hooked.”
― Anthropology Unmasked: Museums, Science, and Politics in New York City - Volume I: The Putnam-Boas Era
In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some balance to American anthropological history, and that the best place to start was with museums—
where the story began. The more I delved into the archives, the more I was fascinated. I was hooked.”
― Anthropology Unmasked: Museums, Science, and Politics in New York City - Volume I: The Putnam-Boas Era
“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.”
― All the Water in the World
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.”
― All the Water in the World
