For those keeping track of books with museums in the story/plot....

 From Neil Gaiman's _Neverwhere_, NY: Avon Books, 1997, pp. 166-167

Richard froze. A security guard was coming straight toward them, the 
beam of his flashlight flashing from side to side. Richard looked 
around for somewhere to hide.

      Too late. Another guard was walking their way, past the huge 
statues of dead Greek gods, flashlight beam swinging. "All right?" 
called the first guard. The other guard kept coming, and stopped just 
beside Richard and Door.

       "I suppose," she said. "I've already had to stop a couple of 
idiots in suits from carving their initials on the Rosetta stone. I 
hate these functions."

       "The first guard shone his flashlight straight into Richard's 
eyes, then let the beam slide off, skittering over shadows. "I keep 
telling you," he said, with the satisfied relish of any true prophet, 
"it's _The Masque of the Read Death_ all over again. A decadent elite 
party, while civilization crumbles about their ears." He picked his 
nose, wiped it on the leather sole of his well-polished black boot.

       The second guard sighs. "Thank you, Gerald. Right, back on patrol."

       The guards walked out of the hall together. "Last one of these 
events we found someone had puked in a sarcophagus," said one of the 
guards, and then the door closed behind them.


---Amy West

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