In addition to the other suggestions:
If you're stretching, the book (and movie, but not recommending that!) Possession by AS Byatt is about two historians researching the past and features time in archives and I thought it was a good portrayal of research.
Years ago, on the first day of docent training at the Building Museum they showed a montage of movie museum tours. Including the great Alamo tour in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. And whatever movie that "we're walking, we're walking" quote is from.
There's also Bringing Up Baby with Cary Grant in a natural history museum. Rat Race (another Rowan Atkinson movie- wonder what his love of museums is) has a Jewish family that goes to the Barbie Museum thinking it's a doll museum only to find it's actually the Klaus Barbie Museum. And Merchant Ivory's the Golden Bowl features a rich American who wants to return to America to start a museum.
And for a good curator send-up, I recently saw Le Divorce and Bebe Neuwirth plays a curator from the Getty.
But definitely, Ross and Rachel's "slumber party" in one of the dioramas at Natural History is a classic to get your new students interested in working in museums!
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I think there is a pretty comprehensive archive topic on this--I'm remembering this thread from a few years ago...two of my favorites are "The Thomas Crown Affair" (new version with Pierce Brosnan eating his sandwich in one of the galleries) and "The Relic".
Good luck,
Ali
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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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