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• Smithson's Gamble

  the Smithsonian Institution in American Life, 1836-1906

  Crouch, Tom D.,

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  The Smithsonian evolved from a small, narrowly focused organization into an institution leading the way in fields from astrophysics to zoology. Smithsonian researchers, and the hundreds of citizen scientists who they recruited, created a collection…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Adventures in the Louvre

  How to Fall in Love With the World's Greatest Museum

  Sciolino, Elaine,

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  Exploring galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens, Sciolino demystifies the Louvre, introducing us to her favorite artworks, both legendary and overlooked, and to the people who are the museum’s lifeblood: the curators, the artisans producing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Fool's Errand

  Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump

  Bunch, Lonnie G., III

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  In its first four months of operation, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture surpassed one million visits and quickly became a cherished, vital monument to the African American experience. And yet this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Museum of Other People

  From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

  Kuper, Adam,

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  In this deeply researched, immersive history, Adam Kuper tells the story of how foreign and prehistoric peoples and cultures were represented in Western museums of anthropology. Originally created as colonial enterprises, their halls were populated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Beauty in the World

  the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

  Bringley, Patrick,

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  Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Monster's Bones

  the Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

  Randall, David K.,

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  A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record.

• The Brutish Museums

  the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

  Hicks, Dan, 1972-

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  Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Picasso's War

  How Modern Art Came to America

  Eakin, Hugh,

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  In this riveting, never-before-told story, a senior editor at Foreign Affairs brings to life the shared goal of building the greatest collection of Picassos in existence, and, in the process, saved dozens of the century’s most enduring artworks…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art Spy

  the Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

  Young, Michelle (Michelle T.),

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  A saga set in Paris during World War II uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world's most treasured masterpieces.