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Wonderstruck (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as museums)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,171 ratings — published 2011
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as museums)
avg rating 4.16 — 221,921 ratings — published 1967
The Participatory Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 561 ratings — published 2010
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as museums)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,554 ratings — published 2023
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as museums)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,493 ratings — published 2008
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,183 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 26 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,885 ratings — published 1995
The Art of Relevance (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 714 ratings — published 2016
The Cloisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as museums)
avg rating 3.39 — 74,865 ratings — published 2022
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as museums)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,644 ratings — published 2018
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as museums)
avg rating 3.71 — 309 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 — 239 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 16 times as museums)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,110 ratings — published 2020
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as museums)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,076 ratings — published 1993
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 4.21 — 219 ratings — published 2012
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 4.03 — 266 ratings — published 1996
The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (Culture: Policy and Politics)
by (shelved 15 times as museums)
avg rating 3.71 — 139 ratings — published 1995
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 684 ratings — published 2020
Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.01 — 217 ratings — published 2015
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as museums)
avg rating 4.05 — 117,900 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 — 1,991 ratings — published 2008
A History of the World in 100 Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as museums)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,596 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
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.89 — 65,417 ratings — published 2025
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,849 ratings — published 2019
Museum Registration Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 4.36 — 105 ratings — published 2010
Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.91 — 95,662 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as museums)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,765 ratings — published 2008
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.91 — 119,937 ratings — published 2023
Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 4.04 — 124 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 — 52,958 ratings — published 2009
Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.83 — 692 ratings — published 2007
Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,117 ratings — published 1986
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as museums)
avg rating 3.85 — 142 ratings — published 2009
Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,204 ratings — published
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,575,558 ratings — published 2003
Meet Me at the Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,139 ratings — published 2018
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 — 97,054 ratings — published 2012
The Social Work of Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as museums)
avg rating 3.59 — 32 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
Cat Nap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,010 ratings — published 2025
Portrait of a Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.44 — 33,083 ratings — published 2022
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 — 438 ratings — published 2019
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,583 ratings — published 1849
Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 4.02 — 137 ratings — published 2017
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.83 — 310 ratings — published 2016
Making Museums Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as museums)
avg rating 3.89 — 130 ratings — published 2002
“I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!”
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
“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
