Behind the scenes at the museum : your access-all-areas guide to the world's amazing museums
Davies, Ben Ffrancon2020
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This behind-the-scenes guide showcases a huge range of incredible artefacts from history and reveals the hard work, care, and effort that goes into collecting, preserving, and storing them. Ever wondered what happens to an astronaut's space suit after it's been worn on the Moon? Or how the world's most valuable diamond is looked after? Find out all about how museums work and the people that make it happen - from how historians care for Anne Frank's diary to what it takes to excavate and exhibit a wooly mammoth skeleton. Behind the Scenes at the Museum gives you exclusive access to hidden objects that aren't normally on public display. It lets you into a world of animal specimens pickled in jars, priceless jewellery too valuable to be on display, and fragile papers that must be kept in carefully controlled conditions.
Main title:
Behind the scenes at the museum : your access-all-areas guide to the world's amazing museums / writers, Ben Ffrancon Davies, S.I. Martin ; illustrator, Philip Harris.
Imprint:
London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2020.London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2020.
Collation:
155 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9780241381762 (hbk)
Dewey class:
069
Language:
English
Subject:
Museums -- Juvenile literatureMuseums -- Collection management -- Juvenile literatureMuseum storage facilities -- Juvenile literatureMuseums -- Curatorship -- Juvenile literatureNon-Fiction 9+General KnowledgeChildren's / Teenage: general interestChildren's / Teenage general interest: Libraries, museums, schooChildren's / Teenage reference: Subject-specific reference
BRN:
2354035