I seem
to remember a session on this topic from AAM...I think it may have been here in
Philadelphia back in 1995. There was a resource book you could buy for $10
or $20 on some of the sessions and there was a big list of movies and book
titles with references to museums in it. I think I have the book somewhere
in my clutter of books at home and I'll check it out, but maybe someone
else might remember it too?!?!?
As for
for my favorite museum-referenced movies--how can you forget the great epic
made-for-TV movie "Nick Knight" starring Rick
Springfield as a vampire cop! The museum curator of antiquities
recognizes his picture from an archeological dig in the 30s and wonders how he
could be investigating a murder in a museum in 1990(?)!! OK, I was the
only one who saw it!
Others--"North" with then kid actor Elijah Woods, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss,
Jason Alexander, Reba McEntire and Bruce Willis among many others.
"North's" parents (Julia and Jason) end up as an exhibit in a museum when they
go catatonic when their perfect son decides to get new ones.
"Royal Tenenbaums"--absolutely fabulous movie with
Anjelica Huston as an archeologist. It references the "Mixed-Up Files of
Mrs..." when two of her children run away and spend the night in the
library.
Fun
topic!!
stacey
Stacey A.
Swigart
Curator of Collections
Please Touch Museum
210 N. 21st
Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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