📚 Museums

The collection made public: cabinets to glass pavilions, and the fights over what a museum is for.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject museums in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The museum experience revisited	John H. Falk	1992	219
	A history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art	Winifred E. Howe	1913	17
	Museum educator's handbook	Graeme K. Talboys	2000	12
	Museum Basics	Timothy Ambrose	2006	11
	Hana's Suitcase	Karen Levine	2002	9
	A practical guide to costume mounting	Lara Flecker	2007	9
	The British Museum	British Museum	1962	8
	Animalium	Jenny Broom	2014	8
	The museum experience	John H. Falk	1992	7
	Starting right	Gerald George	1986	6
	Introduction to museum work	George Ellis Burcaw	1975	5
	Exhibitions in museums	Michael Belcher	1991	5
	Museum exhibition	David Dean	1994	5
	Museums and Galleries of London	Abigail Willis	2000	5
	Creating Exhibitions	Polly McKenna-Cress	2013	5
	Handbook for Museums	David Dean	2013	5
	Museum architecture	Justin Henderson	1998	4
	The Curator's Egg	Karsten Schubert	2000	4
	Things Great and Small	John E. Simmons	2006	4
	The Gardner Heist	Ulrich Boser	2009	4
	Manual of museum exhibitions	Barry Lord	2014	4
	Museums for the 1980s	Kenneth Hudson	1977	3
	Museum basics	Tim Ambrose	1993	3
	Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder	Lawrence Weschler	1995	3
	Haunting museums	John Schuster	2009	3
	Ways of curating	Hans Ulrich Obrist	2014	3
	The New museology	Peter Vergo	1989	2
	Exhibiting cultures	Ivan Karp	1991	2
	At the museum	Larry Berg	2002	2
	Museum marketing and strategy	Neil G. Kotler	2008	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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