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message 152: by Marie (UK) (last edited Jun 12, 2021 01:37PM) (new)

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Museum 16. Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City

1. Location - Mexico City, Mexico
Task: Read a book set it Mexico or written by a Mexican author.
The Murmur of Bees KU


2. About - Task: Read a book set in a school, college, or university.
The Hand on the Wall

3. Collection - 16. Sonaja Otami Culture
Task: Read a book that has a single feather on the cover.
The Corset Library

4. Interactive item - based on the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City.
https://mna.inah.gob.mx/colecciones_d...
One of many containers and pots
Read a book whose title contains a word for something that can contain water
The Well of Lost Plots


2 of 10
Museum 18: The Art Institute of Chicago

1. Location - Task: Read a book set in Illinois.
The Chicago Way (scribd)

2. About - Task: Read a book with fire on the cover.
Chasing Fire

3. Collection - Task: Read a book with a theme of mental illness.
The Rag and Bone Shop: How We Make Memories and Memories Make Us


4. Interactive item -https://www.artic.edu/artworks/159136...
Woman in title
The Woman in White


3 of 10
Museum 19: Museo Larco in Lima

1. Location - Lima, Peru
Task: Read a book with sport as a theme.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

2. About - Task: Read a book whose author's first and last initials are any combination of R L H.
Bright Burning Things NG

3. Collection - Task: Read a book with jewellery on the cover.
The Gilded Ones (library)

4. Interactive item -
https://www.museolarco.org/exposicion...
This divinity represented on this bowl has a dual identity,
Read a book with an author with a dual identity i.e. writes under a name different from their own
e.g JK Rowling, Nora Roberts, Stephen king (Bachman) agatha christie (Mary Westmacott)
At Swim-Two-Birds


4 of 10
Museum 20: The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, China

1. Location - Xi'an, China
Task: Read a book set in historic China - prior to 1900.
Peony in Love


2. About - Task: Read the third book in a series.
Anne of the Island

3. Collection - : Read a book that has "archer" in the title or author's name. Or, a significant character is an archer.
The Watchmaker's Daughter


4. Interactive item - based on The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, China.
Task: Your choice based on your selection from the collection. Required - link to the picture and explain connection
http://www.bmy.com.cn/2015new/bmyweb/...
This burial object is known as the Bronze Yuefu Bell. The word Yuefu in Chinese refers to a specific government department that first came into Being in the Qin Dynasty. Yue means 'music', and fu means 'bureau', so when put together Yuefu means 'Music Bureau'. In the spring of 1976, archaeologists found a bronze Yuefu bell from a site that would have been the music bureau lying northwest of the main tomb mound in the Emperor's Mausoleum area

Read a book with MPG Music / Music or Bell in title / Published 1976
The Day the Music Died

5 of 10
Museum 22. State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

1. Location - Task: Read a book set in Russia.
The Brothers Karamazov


2. About - Task: Read a book with a significant character or author with the name Catherine.
Something in the Water


3. Collection
Task: Read a book with filigree on the cover.
Dark Fire OR The Beauty of Impossible Things


4. Interactive item - based on the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
Task: Your choice based on your selection from the collection. Required -
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/p...
From the beginning
A debut book Mary, Everything


6 of 10
Museum 30. Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence

1. Location - Read a book set in Italy (excludes Venice), or written by an Italian author.
Murder in Chianti

2. About - Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover, or a significant character plays a musical instrument.
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

3. Collection - Read a book with a main page genre of Mystery that involves kidnapping.
The Boy From the Woods


4. Interactive item - based on the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence.
Task: Your choice based on your selection from the collection. Required - link to the picture and explain connection.
https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze....
read a book with MC or author named David
Me Talk Pretty One Day


7 of 10
Museum 31. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans

1. Location -: Read a book set in New Orleans.
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital


2. About - Two historians, Stephen Ambrose and Gordon H. "Nick" Mueller established the war museum in 2000
Task: Read a book originally published in 2000.
When We Were Orphans

3. Collection - Enigma machine
Task: Read a book with the word "Code" in the title. Plurals are allowed.
The Code of the Woosters


4. Interactive item - based on the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
Task: Your choice based on your selection from the collection. Required - link to the picture and explain connection.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war...
featuring firemen
One Tuesday Morning


8 of 10
Museum 32. Pergamon Museum in Berlin

1. Location - Berlin, Germany
Task: Read a book set in Germany, or written by a German author.
Go, Went, Gone

2. About - Task: Read a book that is set in the future.
Promises in Death

3. Collection -
Task: Read a book set in Ancient Rome or Ancient Egypt.
The Gates of Rome

4. Interactive item - based on the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
Task: Your choice based on your selection from the collection. Required - link to the picture and explain connection
http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus...
This magnificent version of a colorful cart typical of Sicily was brought back by Kaiser Wilhelm II - popularly known as the "travel emperor" - from a vacation in Sicily.
main character connected to travel or tourism
The Flight of the Falcon


9 of 10
Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles

1. Location - Los Angeles, California
Task: Read a book that was originally published in Spanish and translated to English.
The Prisoner of Heaven

2. About -
Task: Read a book from Mazes and Labyrinths List. State the position number when reporting.
The Starless Sea 04/02/2021

3. Collection
Task: Read a book with a human character who is male and over the age of 70.
Dog Days


4. Interactive item - based on the Getty Center.
Task: Your choice based on your selection from[http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/o...
Read a book with "Circus" OR "Girl" in the Title
[book:Circus of Wonders|56379302] and with a female MC


10 of 10
Museum 34. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

1. Location - Washington, D.C.
Task: Read a book set in Washington State.
Snow Falling on Cedars


2. About -Task: Read a book with a main page genre of Space Opera. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

3. Collection - Chandelier
Task: Read a book with a candle(s) on the cover, or in the title.
Middlegame


4. Interactive item - based on the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Task: Your choice based on your selection from the collection. Required - link to the picture and explain connection
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection...
the Wrights' first powered airplane flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903
Read a book set in North Carolina
Under Currents



message 153: by Marie (UK) (last edited Jun 13, 2021 10:22AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Reporting
1 of 10
Museum 16. Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City

1. The Murmur of Bees
2. The Hand on the Wall
3. The Corset
4. The Well of Lost Plots

2 of 10
Museum 18: The Art Institute of Chicago

1. The Chicago Way
2. Chasing Fire
3. The Rag and Bone Shop: How We Make Memories and Memories Make Us
4. The Woman in White

3 of 10
Museum 19: Museo Larco in Lima

1. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
2. Bright Burning Things
3. The Gilded Ones
4. At Swim-Two-Birds

4 of 10
Museum 20: The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, China

1. Peony In Love
2. Anne of the Island
3. The Watchmaker's Daughter
4. The Day the Music Died

5 of 10
Museum 22. State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Something in the Water
3. Dark Fire
4. Mary, Everything

6 of 10
Museum 30. Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence

1. Murder in Chianti
2. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
3. The Boy From the Woods
4. Me Talk Pretty One Day

7 of 10
Museum 31. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans

1. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
2. When We Were Orphans
3. The Code of the Woosters
4. One Tuesday Morning

8 of 10
Museum 32. Pergamon Museum in Berlin

1. Go, Went, Gone
2. Promises in Death
3. The Gates of Rome
4. The Flight of the Falcon

9 of 10
Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles

1. The Prisoner of Heaven
2. The Starless Sea
3. Dog Days
4. Circus of Wonders

10 of 10
Museum 34. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

1. Snow Falling on Cedars
2. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
3. Middlegame
4. Under Currents


message 154: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 31
2. Museum 14. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
3. Location -
4. Odds Against Tomorrow
5. 317 pages
6. Task: Read a book about a climate disaster.
7. MPG embedded climate change fiction - New york floods


message 155: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 18550 comments ✔️


message 156: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 32
2. Museum 11. The National Palace Museum in Taipei
3. Collection
4. The Lost Plot
5. 342 pages
6. Task: Read a book with dragons in it.
7. Dragons in it Kai is the one that works with irene also has MPG Fantasy> Dragons

This completes Badge 3


message 157: by Rusalka, Moderator (new)

Rusalka (rusalkii) | 19228 comments ✔️

Grats Marie!!!


message 158: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments Congrats Marie!


message 159: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Rusalka wrote: "✔️

Grats Marie!!!"


Janice wrote: "Congrats Marie!"

thanks both of you going to start Badge 4 listing before the grandchildren descend - first time in 12 months - I have cuddles stored up so will be busy soon


message 160: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book1
2. Museum 16. Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City
3. About
4. The Hand on the Wall
5. 369 pages
6. Read a book set in a school, college, or university.
7. Setting Ellingham Academy


message 161: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 2
2. Museum 20: The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, China
3. About
4. Anne of the Island
5. 243 Pages
6. Read the third book in a series.
7. # 3 in Anne of Green Gables Series


message 162: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 3
2. Museum 31. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans
3. Interactive
4. One Tuesday Morning
5. 354 pages
6. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war...
Read a book featuring Firemen
7. Set around 9/11 and the crew of the nearby fire station


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Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. badge 4 Book 4
2. Museum 32. Pergamon Museum in Berlin
3. Location
4. Go, Went, Gone
5. 304 pages
6. Read a book set in Germany, or written by a German author.
7. Set in Berlin identified in Book blurb and german Author


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Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 5
2. Museum 32. Pergamon Museum in Berlin
3. About
4. Promises in Death
5. I listened on Audio MMP is 338 pages
6. Read a book set in the future
7. Set in 2060 identified in setting on GR page


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Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 6
2. Museum 34. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
3. About
4. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
5. 325 pages
6. Read a book with a main page genre of Space Opera.
7. MPG Space> Space Opera


message 166: by Marie (UK) (last edited Apr 17, 2021 01:24AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 7
2. Museum 34. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
3. Interactive
4. Under Currents
5. 352 pages
6. https://airandspace.si.edu/collection...
After building and testing three full-sized gliders, the Wrights' first powered airplane flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903,
Read a book set inNorth Carolina
7. Setting North Carolina on GR main page


message 167: by Rusalka, Moderator (new)

Rusalka (rusalkii) | 19228 comments Oh wow. Kk. On it!


message 168: by Rusalka, Moderator (new)

Rusalka (rusalkii) | 19228 comments ✔️


message 169: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments Hopefully there's enough books in badge 4 to keep you occupied at least until I get the badge created.


message 170: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Janice wrote: "Hopefully there's enough books in badge 4 to keep you occupied at least until I get the badge created."

Janice it will be a long while until I finish Badge 4 you have time for ultimate creativity


message 171: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments LOL! Super!


message 172: by Marie (UK) (last edited Apr 20, 2021 10:46AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 8
2. Museum 32 :Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
3. Interactive
4. The Flight of the Falcon
5. 320 pages
6. http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus...
This magnificent version of a colorful cart typical of Sicily was brought back by Kaiser Wilhelm II - popularly known as the "travel emperor" - from a vacation in Sicily.
Read a book where a main character is connected to travel or tourism
7. As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life from main page info


message 173: by Marie (UK) (last edited Apr 20, 2021 08:47AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 9
2. Museum 16. Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City
3. Interactive
4. The Well of Lost Plots
5. 375 pages
6. https://mna.inah.gob.mx/colecciones_d...
One of many containers and pots
Read a book whose title contains a word for something that can contain watere.g The Madness Vase
7. Well in title


message 174: by Kristie, Moderator (new)

Kristie | 19364 comments Marie - Which museum # is your Badge 4 Book 8?

✔️ I checked off Badge 4 Book 9.


message 175: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Sorry it is museum 32 will add it to the post above


message 176: by Kristie, Moderator (new)

Kristie | 19364 comments ✔️ Thanks, Marie.


message 177: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 10
2. Museum 18: The Art Institute of Chicago
3. Interactive
4. The Woman in White 22/04/2021
5. 672 Pages
6. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/159136... : Woman in title
7. Woman is in title


message 178: by Peggy (new)

Peggy (pebbles84) | 15868 comments ✔️


message 179: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 11
2. Museum 31. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans
3. Location -:
4. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital 24/04/2021
5. 602 pages
6. Read a book set in New Orleans
7. Events following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans


message 180: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 12
2. Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles
3. Interactive
4. Circus of Wonders 24/04/2021
5. 384 pages
6. [http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/o...
Read a book with "Circus" OR "Girl" in the Title [book:Circus of Wonders|56379302] and with a female MC
7. Circus in title MC is Nell (identified in GR blurb)


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Rusalka (rusalkii) | 19228 comments ✔️


message 182: by Marie (UK) (last edited Apr 27, 2021 03:10PM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 13
2. Museum 22. State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
3. About
4. Something in the Water
5. 464 pages
6. Read a book with a significant character or author with the name Catherine.
7. Author is Catherine Steadman


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Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 14
2. Museum 30. Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence
3. Interactive
4. Me Talk Pretty One Day
5. 272 pages
6. https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze....
read a book with MC or author named David
7. Author David Sedaris


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Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 15
2. Museum 34. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
3. Collection
4. Middlegame
5. I listened to the Audion PB is 528 pages
6. Candles on cover
7. Middlegame by Seanan McGuire approved in help thread


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Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️


message 186: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Hello Janice lovely to see you back hope you are getting stranger every day


message 187: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments I do believe I'm getting stranger every day... and stronger too. LOL! Thanks Marie.


message 188: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Janice wrote: "I do believe I'm getting stranger every day... and stronger too. LOL! Thanks Marie."

darn typos I have always been stranger


message 189: by Marie (UK) (last edited Apr 29, 2021 11:14PM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 16
2. Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles
3, Collection
4. Dog Days
5. 368 pages
6. Task: Read a book with a human character who is male and over the age of 70.
7. George is over 70 (married for over 50 years as evidence)


message 190: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments Marie (UK) wrote: "1. Badge 4 Book 16
2. Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles
3, Collection
4. Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles
5. 368 pages
6. Task: Read a book with a human character who is male and..."


Um? What book did you read?

I had to chuckle over your Freudian slip. :)


message 191: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Janice wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "1. Badge 4 Book 16
2. Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles
3, Collection
4. Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles
5. 368 pages
6. Task: Read a book with a human charac..."


I am not doing well will alter post above thebook was Dog Days


message 192: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️

Thanks for adding that. :)


message 193: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1, Badge 4 Book 17
2. Museum 22. State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
3. Location -
4. The Brothers Karamazov
5. 1045 pages
6. read a book set in Russia
7. Main page info states setting as Russia


message 194: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️

Now that's a chunkster!


message 195: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Janice wrote: "✔️

Now that's a chunkster!"


indeed it was and to be fair he could have shaved it by 50%


message 196: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 18
2. Museum 19: Museo Larco in Lima
3. Location -
4. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
5. 192 pages
6. Task: Read a book with sport as a theme.
7. MPG sport


message 197: by Marie (UK) (last edited May 04, 2021 11:39AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 19
2. Museum 22. State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
3. Interactive
4. Mary, Everything 04/05/2021
5. 413 pages
6.https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/p...
Adam and eve from the beginning of the world Creation
In the beginning - Read A debut book
7. this is a debut for Cassandra Yorke


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Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️


message 199: by Marie (UK) (last edited May 05, 2021 07:51AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 4 Book 20
2. Museum 16. Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City
3. Location -
4. The Murmur of Bees
5. 471 pages
6. Task: Read a book set it Mexico or written by a Mexican author.
7. Set in Mexico stated in GR info about book and by Mexican Author


message 200: by Cherie (new)

Cherie (crobins0) | 21536 comments Re The Murmur of Bees. Did you like the story?


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