It would be fun to see the responses here-- this list must be endless. Here
are two off the top of my head that spring instantly to mind:

Ian Rankin, book "Tooth and Nail", incredibly bloody and destructive scene
in the National Gallery, London.

ZaSu Pitts, starring in the movie "The Plot Thickens", romping through
Metropolitan Museum of Art NY

One more, P.D. James places Adam Dalgliesh in a fictional museum on
Hampstead Heath in "The Murder Room."

Heavens, can't forget Mark Twain's "The Innocents Abroad", he hit them all.
And everyone will send in Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code".

And how are you defining "museum"? If the marvelous historic cemetery
Pere-Lachaise in Paris will do, there is the totally delightful book
"Waiting for Gertrude" by Bill Richardson.  What about archives-- A.S.
Byatt's book "Possession" captures one completely (film was terrible
though).

That's all I can find strewn around my desk at the moment, but others have
probably topped 100 by now. My mind is filled with disconnected scenes from
movies where lovers and assassins meet in front of a painting in a museum...
I'm supposed to get back to work now?

Micki Ryan
Curator, Highline Historical Society

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