Museum History

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    • The Museums of the World and the United States
    • By: Paul R. Wonning
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Short History of Museums relates the story of the museum from the early, ancient museums up to the current, leading world museums. The ...

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    • By: Jim Eldridge
    • Narrated by: Peter Wickham
    • Series: Museum Mysteries, Book 5
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
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    • London, 1895. Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton have been hired by the Natural History Museum to find out who deliberately smashed the fossilised skeleton of a small dinosaur....

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    • A Short History of Crisis and Resilience
    • By: Samuel J. Redman
    • Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Museum explores the concepts of "crisis" as it relates to museums, and how these historic institutions have dealt with challenges ranging from depression and war to pandemic and philosophical uncertainty....

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    • By: Rebekah Bergman
    • Narrated by: Gilli Messer, Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • Rebekah Bergman’s The Museum of Human History is a brilliant and fascinating novel about how time shapes us, asking what—if anything—we would be without it....

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    • A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts
    • By: John Barelli, Zachary Schisgal
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-19
    • Language: English
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    • When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of 40 years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet....

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    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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    • And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
    • By: Joshua Hammer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 448 ratings
    • This audiobook tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers....

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    • Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
    • By: Lonnie G. Bunch III
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
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    • In its first four months of operation, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture surpassed one million visits and quickly became a cherished, vital monument to the African American experience. And yet this accomplishment was never assured....

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    • How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
    • By: Noah Charney
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
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    • Scandal, shock, and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin....

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    • Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture
    • By: Chip Colwell
    • Narrated by: Chip Colwell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
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    • Today, hundreds of tribes use the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to recover heritage from museums across the country. Chip Colwell navigated firsthand questions of how to weigh the religious freedom of Native Americans against the academic freedom of scientists....

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    • A History, a Theory, a Flood
    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-11
    • Language: English
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    • James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....

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    • Heretics, Orthodoxy, The Ball and the Cross, What's Wrong with the World, The Ballad of the White Horse, The Flying Inn, A Short History of England, The Dregs of Puritanism, & Liberalism
    • By: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks Cast
    • Length: 51 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary critic. Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, several plays, plus 4,000 essays and newspaper columns....

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    • A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art
    • By: Patrick Bringley
    • Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-23
    • Language: English
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    • All the Beauty in the World is a moving, revelatory portrait of one of the world's great museums and its treasures by someone whose value is often overlooked: the museum guard....

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    • By: Max Adams
    • Narrated by: Max Adams
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
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    • Max Adams explores the role that wood has played in our own history as an imaginative, curious and resourceful species.

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