I too am here because of the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Others include a poem about the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford by James
Fenton, and Jane Langton's detective novels set in museums (such as the
Isabella Stewart Gardner, Pitt Rivers and Monticello).  Elizabeth Peters'
Amelia Peabody books often include scenes in the Cairo museum.

You might contact Beth Merritt at AAM.  One of her co-presenters at the AAM
collections stewardship in Rhode Island this summer gave us a condensed
version of an annual meeting presentation on cultural perceptions of museums
in movies and novels.  It was fantastic.

Lindsey Richardson
Collections Manager
The Children's Museum
300 Congress Street
Boston, MA  02210
Tel. 617 426 6500 x366
Fax 617 426 1944
www.bostonkids.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Aldona Sendzikas [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: novels and films set in museums

I'm teaching an "Introduction to Museum Studies" course next year.  I plan
to
examine popular images of museums by having students read novels and/or
watch
films that are about, or set in, museums.  Any suggested titles?

Thanks!



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Aldona Sendzikas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
History Department
The University of Western Ontario
SSC Room 4418, London, Ontario  N6A 5C2
(519) 661-2111, x84377
Fax:  (519) 661-3010
e-mail:  [log in to unmask]

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