So You Want to Run a Museum...

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An eclectic collection of fiction and nonfiction, heists and that museum feeling familiar to all of us who loved From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
19,522 members
300 reviews
4.2
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Caramellunacy: The original book that made me want to live in a museum (not to mention had me itching to organize those files)
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
by Kirk Wallace Johnson
1,344 members
62 reviews
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Caramellunacy: A crazy story about a music student who broke into a natural history museum to steal feather specimens for fly-fishing lures in order to buy a golden flute.
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The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
by Ulrich Boser
645 members
36 reviews
½ 3.5
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Caramellunacy
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Caramellunacy: Non-fiction examining the break-in and theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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The Court of the Stone Children
by Eleanor Cameron
336 members
8 reviews
4
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Caramellunacy: Middle-grade fiction with a lovely sense of the possible and an evocative description of the "museum feeling"
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Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
by Jason Felch
285 members
9 reviews
4
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Caramellunacy: A cautionary tale about museum curators in major museums buying looted antiquities under the flimsiest of pretexts.
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Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist
by Stephen Kurkjian
126 members
5 reviews
3.1
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Caramellunacy
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Caramellunacy: An examination of the Gardner museum theft linking it to organized crime in Boston
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Her Knight at the Museum
by Bryn Donovan
96 members
8 reviews
3.8
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Caramellunacy: A divorced art restorer at the Art Institute of Chicago brings a medieval knight cursed as a statue to life in this fish out of water contemporary romance.
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National Archive Hunters 1: Capitol Chase
by Matthew Landis
22 members
1 review
3.8
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Caramellunacy
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Caramellunacy: Middle-grade fiction - twins seeking to foil a heist of important artefacts with research in the National Archives, out-of-the-box thinking and fleet feet