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Series
Language
English
Description
Alexander's class is going on a sleepover at the Stermont Museum, but something is stealing bright, shiny objects from all over town, including the museum's treasured Ruby Scorpion, and on the night of the visit the young monster hunters finally confront the town's newest monster--a warrior covered entirely by bubble-wrap.
22) Curioddity
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Will Morgan is a creature of habit--a low-budget insurance detective who walks to and from work with the flow of one-way traffic, and for whom imagination is a thing of the distant past. When a job opportunity enters the frame in the form of the mysterious Mr. Dinsdale--curator of the ever so slightly less-than-impressive Curioddity Museum--Will reluctantly accepts the task of finding a missing box of levity (the opposite of gravity). What he soon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future. Art museums have played a vital role in our culture, drawing on Enlightenment ideals in shaping ideas, advancing learning, fostering community, and providing spaces of beauty and permanence. In this thoughtful and often personal volume, Daniel H. Weiss contemplates the idea of the universal...
27) T. rex
Author
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Take a trip through a special dinosaur exhibtion with a young boy and his granddad as they learn about the greatest meat-eating dinosaur of all--Tyrannosaurus rex"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 26
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
When Geronimo receives an urgent message from Professor Sandsnout just before Halloween, he rushes over to the Egyptian Mouseum in New Mouse City and discovers real live mummies.
29) The murder room
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a trustee of the Dupayne, a small private London museum locked in a battle over its future, and find their probe complicated by a second corpse.
Author
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Today well over two hundred museums focusing on African American history and culture can be found throughout the United States and Canada. Many of these institutions trace their roots to the 1960s and 1970s, when the struggle for racial equality inspired a movement within the black community to make the history and culture of African America more public. This book tells the story of four of these groundbreaking museums: the DuSable Museum of African...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
When the plans for the Bat-Wing, a historical aircraft, disappear from the Capitol City Air and Space Museum, eleven-year-old Amal Farah's father is blamed, and it is up to the four young friends to solve the mystery and save her father's job.
34) Planetary-yum
Author
Series
Waffles and Pancake volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Future CatStronaut Waffles and his younger sister Pancake are kittens who enjoy visiting the science museum with Dad-Cat.--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One morning, Ben finds an envelope containing a very special invitation to come and see the Gee Museum -- a dusty old place under threat of closure. However, once inside he discovers all sorts of incredible things like talking owls, dancing bees, magical bottles, witches, and of course, a hippo at the end of the hall. But most importantly he discovers a connection to his father and the family he never even knew he had. And now he has something important...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a series of accidents and other strange happenings at the Capitol City Natural History Museum lead to rumors that the museum is being haunted by the ghost of a Pterosaur, ten-year-old Wilson Kipper and his friends set out to solve the mystery.
Author
Publisher
Cassava Republic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Princess Arabella and her friends go to the museum. There are works of different artists exhibited: some are big and others are small. In some works you can lose yourself and others make you smile. Then the children want to go home. Why? Because they want to make their own work of art"--Publisher marketing.
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Each hour of 'Mysteries at the Museum' will take viewers on a captivating, revealing, and at times shocking tour of America's past, revisiting its most crucial events by reexamining what has been left behind. Season 1 tackles some of history's most enduring mysteries, tales that viewers will be intimately familiar with, and little known episodes that have never been told before on television.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When the spacesuit of famous astronaut Sally Ride disappears from a traveling exhibit, Amal Farah, daughter of the Air and Space Museum's archivist, and her three friends, are determined to find the culprit before the exhibit is cancelled.
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