In Dan Brown's DaVinci Code - the Louvre is a central site and in his book 
Angels and Demons the Vatican Secret Archives is featured.  Also, Nick 
Bantock's The Venetian's Wife starts in a museum and the central character 
is a paintings conservator - he also has another book set in a museum, but I 
can't recall the name.

There is a great list at Conservation online listing books, movies, etc. 
with heritage settings and workers.

Joanna

>From: Jeff Farrar <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: books and movies that take place in museums
>Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:48:30 -0400
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>In the new movie Sahara there are scenes inside museums and inside the 
>archive of a mosque.
>
>Jeff Farrar
>Bruce County Museum & Archives
>P.O. Box 180
>Southampton, ON N0H 2L0
>Tel: 1-866-318-8889
>Fax: 519-797-2191
>www.brucemuseum.ca
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>From: Museum discussion list on behalf of Stacy Fisher
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>Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] books and movies that take place in museums
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>
>Holden Caulfield went to the Met in "The Catcher in the Rye" where he was
>shocked to see "F--- you" written on the wall.
>
>Stacy
>
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>
>Hello!
>
>I am compiling a list of books (fiction) and movies
>that take place in museums, or have plots where
>museums figure prominently.
>
>Feel free to email me privately if you don't want to
>clutter up the list with responses.
>
>Thanks so much!!
>
>Kim
>
>Kimberly A. Kenney, Curator
>Wm. McKinley Presidential Library & Museum
>800 McKinley Monument Dr. NW
>Canton OH 44708 * 330-455-7043
>Visit the Ohio Memory Project at http://www.ohiomemory.org
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