Bailey, Susannah
Summary: The mice are captivated by Matisse and the cats are exploring the Surrealists' room ... what else is going on in the gallery? This quirky and creative search-and-find book takes children, room by room, through a wonderfully illustrated gallery, where an array of animals are enjoying everything from Impressionism and Surrealism to Pop Art and Cubism. Each room is filled with strange and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LOM Art 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 708 BAIOldham, Matthew
Summary: Explore every corner of a museum -- from grand exhibition galleries to cavernous storerooms and dusty back offices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Set Lift the Flap 069.075 Oldham 2019Bunch, Lonnie G
Summary: "Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's inside story of how the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture was created. By turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, and bittersweet, this is his deeply personal tale of the challenges and rewards of bringing a nationally acclaimed new institution to life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 069.09753 BUNSchiff, Thomas R.
Summary: "In sweeping tableaux, photographer Thomas R. Schiff presents, America's most important art museums, using breathtaking photographs that compels us to revisit historic and modern cultural institutions and their storied rooms in a genuinely new light. Schiff skillfully combines his love of photography and architecture and profiles museums of all sizes and stripes across the country, showcasing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 708.13 SCHStone-Gordon, Tammy.
Contents: Introduction : historical display, commerce, and community -- Toward a new typology of historical exhibition in the United States -- Community exhibition : history, identity, and dialogue -- Entrepreneurial exhibition : historical display and the small business tradition -- Vernacular exhibition and the business of history -- Local history, global economy : the functions of history exhibits in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AltaMira Press 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 973.075Py-Lieberman, Beth
Summary: "This authoritative guide delivers in-depth reportage on the history of remarkable objects from the Smithsonian's collections"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 069.09753 PY-LCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 069.09753 PY-LSummary: In 2020 the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated its 150th anniversary. This three-part program looks at the uncertainty the Met faced at this time as it faced an indefinite closure due to COVID-19 and calls for social justice following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSVis̆tica, Olinka
Summary: The tiny museum that has become an international phenomenon offers a crowdsourced book that celebrates the objects that outlast love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 VISBolden, Tonya
Summary: The first national museum whose mission is to illuminate for all people, the rich, diverse, complicated, and important experiences and contributions of African Americans in America is opening. And the history of NMAAHC--the last museum to be built on the National Mall--is the history of America. The campaign to set up a museum honoring black citizens is nearly 100 years old; building the museum...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 BOLBrown, Laurene Krasny.
Summary: As a family wanders through an art museum, they see examples of various art styles from primitive through twentieth-century pop art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 708.13 BROSummary: Take an exclusive tour of the world's most exciting museums and discover their hidden treasures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tells the story of a unique museum, the small town it calls home, and the great risk, hope, and power of art to transform a desolate post-industrial city. MASS MoCA is the largest museum for contemporary art in the world, but just three decades before, its vast brick buildings were the abandoned relics of a massive shuttered factory. How did such a wildly improbable transformation come to be? A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MUSCosta, Vincenzo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 567.91 COSHigonnet, Anne
Summary: By 1850 cash-flush Americans like J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, and Mildred and Robert Bliss went on collecting campaigns that netted masterpiece after masterpiece, along with the furniture and fittings of dozens of aristocratic residences. From the outset, these collectors planned to present their trophies to the public as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Periscope Pub. 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 708 HIGSummary: In this exuberant celebration of the world’s museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Clampitt, Cynthia
Summary: "The Midwest's place at the crossroads of the nation makes it a rich travel destination for anyone interested in the history and heritage of the United States. Cynthia Clampitt's guide to heartland historical sites invites readers to live the past, whether it's watching a battlefield reenactment or wandering the grounds of an ancient Native American city. From the National Underground Railroad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 3 Fields Books, an imprint of University of Illinois Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.70 CLADay, Nick (Nicholas)
Summary: "On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.16 DAYMeister, Cari
Summary: Colorful pictures and simple text describe the kinds of things you might see and do at an art museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jump!, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 708 MEIOtter, Isabel
Summary: Featuring peek-through gatefolds and questions to encourage active reading, this invitation into the world of art and color introduces kids to basic art styles, such as mosaics, portraits, sculptures and landscapes, with the help of adorable animal friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: The author/illustrator describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 708 BROHandford, Martin
Summary: "Maybe you're good at spotting Waldo. But can you spot the difference? Head to the museum, where even the sharpest eyes are seeing double. Waldo is wandering through the museum, where there are some devilishly difficult differences to decipher. Finding Waldo and his buddies is hard enough, but who can spot the minutiae that separate one Egyptian tablet from another? The dastardly details that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Hass, Kristin Ann
Summary: Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture in particular ways. Hass explore the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure: memorials in parks, museums visited by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022