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• The Museum

  Verde, Susan

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  A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.

• Kansas Bucket List Adventure Guide

  Explore 100 Offbeat Destinations You Must Visit!

  Huber, Douglas,

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  Traveling to Kansas is unlike any other adventure you crossed off your bucket list. The ultimate dreamland for adventurous spirits whose soul craves deep connection with nature, Kansas is rich in picturesque landscapes that'll leave you breathless.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Object at Hand

  Intriguing and Inspiring Stories From the Smithsonian Collections

  Py-Lieberman, Beth,

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  Museums can be overwhelming, and the Smithsonian, a massive collection encompassing 21 separate facilities and over 150 million objects, especially so. Py-Lieberman, a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine, comes to the rescue with this carefully…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Big Book of Museums

  Bensard, Eva,

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  From Bilbao to Beijing, from New York to the Netherlands, explore the wonders of 13 extraordinary museums in this "great big" oversized book for readers 8 to 108. Whether you're visiting Mexico City's Frida Kahlo Museum, Paris's treasured Louvre, or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Land Is Your Land

  a Road Trip Through U.S. History /

  Gage, Beverly,

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  Ride along with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn--and fight--about our history. From the birth…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Museum of Shapes

  Völker, Sven (Graphic designer),

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  Völker invites readers to reflect upon shapes in this interactive picture book that's, per a closing note, inspired by a real museum. Introducing a shape-based institution and its curator, pink-skinned, blue-haired Alma (Alma's dog also follows…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Explorers

  Cordell, Matthew, 1975-

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  A family of four visits a local natural history museum and their lives are enriched in ways they never could have anticipated in this mostly wordless story that tells the story of a regular outing. The family dynamics, as displayed through the body…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Treasure Palaces

  Great Writers Visit Great Museums

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  This compilation of 23 articles originally written for the Authors on Museums series in the lifestyle magazine 1843 (formerly known as Intelligent Life) takes readers on an entertaining and idiosyncratic tour of obscure museums that have inspired…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Midnight Visitor

  Webb, Holly,

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  Meet the Museum Kittens, a feline family that guards history's treasures, inspired by real cats at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the British Museum in London. The first in the new series, The Midnight Visitor, introduces readers to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Friends of the Museum

  a Novel

  McGowan, Heather,

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  When Diane Schwebe, the director of a major New York museum, is awakened in the early morning by a text message from the museum's lawyer, it is the start of a twenty-four hour roller-coaster ride. Diane has sacrificed many things in her life to help…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Izzy Paints

  Miller, Tim, 1972-

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  After Izzy visits an art museum in the big city, he becomes inspired to make his own art.

• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

  Konigsburg, E. L.

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  When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hidden Gem

  Liu, Linda (Illustrator),

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  "When a small pebble sees others gathering on the steps of the Museum of Rocks, he grows curious. Once inside the esteemed halls, he is shocked by what he discovers. The only rocks on display are glittering gemstones, geodes, and crystals! These…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dakota Crumb

  Tiny Treasure Hunter

  Michalak, Jamie,

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  In this Night at the Museum-leaning picture book, an intrepid gray mouse, dressed in a red turtleneck sweater and utility belt, uses her nocturnal prowl to scour a big-city museum for treasures--which readers will recognize as things left behind by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Footnotes From the Most Fascinating Museums

  Stories and Memorable Moments From People Who Love Museums

  Eckstein, Bob,

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  This title is a mix of modern firsthand accounts from museum curators and visitors, mixed with the histories of individual museums in North America (mostly in the United States). It features Eckstein's illustrations of the museums' architecture,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Henry and the Something New

  Bailey, Jenn, 1965-

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  Henry, a young boy with autism goes on a class field trip to the natural history museum, with instructions to find something new. Jenn Bailey is an author, editor, blue-ribbon pie baker, and eager traveler. Born and raised in Rhode Island, she now…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Behind the Scenes at the Museum

  Your All-access Guide to the World's Amazing Museums

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  Take an exclusive tour of the world's most exciting museums and discover their hidden treasures.

• Museum Alive With David Attenborough

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  Sir David Attenborough explores the Natural History Museum in London and meets some of the most extraordinary creatures from the past. These animals are brought back to life using state of the art CGI informed by the latest scientific understanding,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Museum of Nothing

  Guarnaccia, Steven,

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  Oona and Otto visit a new museum: The Museum of Nothing. They go inside, and there is nothing everywhere. There is nothing in the Nobody Room, nothing in the Blank Library and the Zero Wing, and so much nothing in the Hall of Holes. Briefly, Otto is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

  a History

  Wolferman, Kristie C., 1948-

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  When Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opened to the public in 1933, it was viewed as a miracle, an oasis of culture in a Midwestern town whose image was still largely one of cowboys and steaks. In an engaging style, Kristie Wolferman tells…Read moreRead more of this annotation