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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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    • 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: Rebekah Bergman
    • Narrated by: Gilli Messer, Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • Museum Mystery Series, Book 8
    • By: Sheila Connolly
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Series: Museum Mystery Series, Book 8
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • When a summer intern at the Preservation Society discovers an aged document hidden in the binding of an antique book, Society President Nell Pratt is intrigued by the possibilities....

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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 449 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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    • From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
    • By: Adam Kuper
    • Narrated by: Marisa Calin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology museums....

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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 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,952 ratings
    • 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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    • A Catalogue of Wonders
    • By: Stuart Kells
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve....

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    • On the Creation of the Encyclopedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911
    • By: Denis Boyles
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
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    • Denis Boyles tells the amazing story of this atlas of human brilliance, a massive 29-volume, 44 million word anthology of some of the best essays written in English....

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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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