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15 reviews
The (NY) Metropolitan Museum of Art

Little, Brown Young Readers, 2002

the best ABC ever
My grandchildren began enjoying this book well before their first birthdays and loved them, almost always wanting to have them "read." The book is beautifully produced and introduces each letter with four works of art from the Met collection that exemplify the letter. "B," for example, is "boat" and the four art works are from different periods and styles but all have recognizable "boats" in ...

Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs

7 reviews
College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Blast Books, 2007

Perfect strange gift
I got this as a gift for my sister and having previously been to the museum, she was thrilled to have a book about it to look at whenever. It is packed with eerie pictures and information and is definitley worth giving it a look. If you or someone you know is interested in strange things, this is a perfect book for you. She said more than once that this was her favorite Christmas gift. Enjoy!

Fancy Nancy at the Museum (I Can Read Book 1)

13 reviews
Jane O'connor

HarperCollins, 2008

Oh la la! We're going to a museum to see masterpieces!
What is there not to like about Fancy Nancy! Since this series began, young readers (and their parents) have held in their hands someone precious and pretty and sweet and fancy. The artwork is simply adorable and utterly feminine in depicting the precious and precocious Nancy. With this reader, Fancy Nancy joins the I Can Read! group of books. At Level 1 (which this book is) the reader is ...

The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum

12 reviews
Kate Bernheimer

Schwartz & Wade, 2008

My granddaughter's opinion
I gave this book to my four and a half year-old granddaughter. After we had read it a few times over a few days, her mother asked her, "Is that a good book?" Caitlin replied in her matter-of-fact way, "It is a WONDERFUL book." I agree, but I was more interested in what she thought. I now give the book regularly as a gift to other families.

British Museum Is Falling Down, the

12 reviews
David Lodge

Penguin Books, 1998

You MUST Read This!
David Lodge is a favorite author of mine, and his other three immensely entertaining and funny novels are Paradise News, Therapy, and Small World. Lodge is a craftsman, and it is sheer pleasure to read his sentences. His knowledge of and facility with Anglo-Catholicism is unique, especially since he can turn it into laugh-out-loud comedy. His characters are well developed and garner your ...

The Museum of Bad Art: Masterworks

4 reviews
Michael Frank, Louise Reilly Sacco

Ten Speed Press, 2008

Hysterical!
Some of the write-ups were written so well, it took several days for me to stop giggling. This book is WELL worth the money!

Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

13 reviews
Danny Danziger

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008

I also couldn't put it down!
What a rich, generous, amazing book! Perhaps fifty different people from curators through trustees, security people, and cleaning staff show us how they all work together to make one of the greatest museums in the world. From the extremely wealthy trustee to the waitress with aching feet, it shows the human faces behind the priceless art in New York's Metropolitan Museum. We know about the life ...

Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel

102 reviews
Kate Atkinson

Picador, 1997

Haunting hat trick - surreal and yet real; hyper tragic yet heartwarming
This is a weird and wonderful and amazingly talented bit of writing. I'm not surprised to see the controversy in the reviews here on Amazon. Behind the Scenes at the Museum is a difficult story emotionally - and uses some extremely unconventional tropes and techniques that can be hard to swallow. But it is a brilliant depiction of family dynamics, English culture, and the weird twisted nature ...

Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

4 reviews
Richard Fortey

Knopf, 2008

The Museum, the Scientists and their Specimens
About a month ago, (September 2008) I had a chance to hear Richard Fortey himself lecturing about this book. The lecture, very fittingly, was happening in a natural history museum. As his lecture unfolded, I found myself with many of the most interesting characters that have ever contributed to natural history, both famous and obscure. I also learned about what goes on behind the scenes of the ...

Museum Trip

7 reviews
Barbara Lehman

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

Stunning art, lyrical wordless story
A friend introduced me to Museum Trip and it's now my go-to-gift-book for children of all ages. The wordless adventure is accessible to kids young and old and the surprise ending sends them all back to the beginning again. Barbara Lehman's eye for detail astounds and delights: each page can be enjoyed over and over again. I can't wait to see what she does next!

The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Practice
Sarah S. Brophy

AltaMira Press, 2008

The Green Museum shows museum professionals how they can incorporate green design into new construction and day to day operations, using sustainable practices to save on operating costs and make museums attractive to new fundraising sources.

Museum 123

4 reviews
The (NY) Metropolitan Museum of Art

Little, Brown Young Readers, 2004

Art appreciation actually isn't intimidating!
With this absolutely beautiful book both children and adults can enjoy many different styles of art and play a counting game. I notice this book is suggested for older elementary school aged children. I know it is a big hit with my 6 year old even though she knows how to count extremely well. The art is very interesting and it is a fun game to search for what objects are the matching number ...

Jewish Museums of the World: Masterpieces of Judaica
Grace Cohen Grossman

Universe, 2008

Jewish Museums of the World celebrates more than 150 Jewish museums from every point on the globe. Treasures from unexpected collections are featured in more than 400 illustrations, whose scope spans ceremonial to fine arts to history. A directory of all the museums contained in the book, as well as other, important sites of Jewish historical interest, provides basic information, including phone, fax, and Web sites. Combing the breadth of ...

Best of the National Air and Space Museum

2 reviews

Collins, 2006

Nat'l Air & Space Museum review
Great photograghs with well written copy. This book makes me want to go to this museum and see first hand the items displayed. Highly recommend!!!

You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum (Picture Puffin)

17 reviews
Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman

Puffin, 2001

Ages 5-100
A fun picture book,with lots of action. Which compares pictures to the things of the metropolitan museum. Age 7 I recomend it alot

The Jewish Calendar 5769: 2008-2009 Engagement Calendar

1 review
New York Jewish Museum

Universe Publishing, 2008

RECOMMENDATION: "A LITTLE JOY, A LITTLE OY, 2009"
Good product and useful. For a pure calendar, may I recommend another:A Little Joy, A Little Oy: A Banquet of Jewish Humor and Wisdom 2009 Day-to-Day Calendar As a calendar buff, was recently given "A Little Joy, A Little Oy" and it's just amazing! Judaism from a totally different perspective. A Little Joy, A Little Oy: A Banquet of Jewish Humor and Wisdom 2009 Day-to-Day Calendar You'll ...

The Manual of Museum Exhibitions

AltaMira Press, 2001

This is a guide to the process of planning, designing, producing and evaluating exhibitions for museums. Subjects range from traditional displays of art, artifacts and specimens from the permanent collection to the latest developments in virtual reality, online exhibitions, and big-screen reality.

Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift
Gail Anderson

AltaMira Press, 2004

Reinventing the Museum gathers 35 seminal articles reflecting over 100 years of dialogue within the musem community about what it means to be a high-quality, relevant institution. Important reading for museum professionals, students, and anyone interested in museums and their development.

The Horror in the Museum

9 reviews
H.P. Lovecraft

Del Rey, 2007

A Must for Fans
Having read and enjoyed most of Lovecraft's other works, I picked up this book for a diversion - curious to see how the collaborations worked out. I was unprepared for the fantastic quality of some of the stories, which in my opinion rank with his best work. My two personal favorites include "The Last Test" and "The Mound." Those two stories are worth the price alone. Not all of the stories, of ...

Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations

1 review

Duke University Press, 2006

The "Friction" is Academic
While I found a few gems and insights, this 600-plus page tome needed a good book editor to boil it down to maybe 200 pages. It appears a bunch of noted academics were trying to appear, well, academic, and they succeeded. Single sentences the length of paragraphs, simple words with superfluous suffixes added--I kept saying to myself, "just say it already--stop trying to impress me with how you ...

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