Museum History

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    • By: Jim Eldridge
    • Narrated by: Peter Wickham
    • Series: Museum Mysteries, Book 5
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • 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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    • 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: 04-08-20
    • 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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    • By: Max Adams
    • Narrated by: Max Adams
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-23
    • 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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    • 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: 16-03-23
    • 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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    • A Fragile History
    • By: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur Der Weduwen
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 14-10-21
    • Language: English
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    • In this, the first major history of its kind, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen explore the contested and dramatic history of the library....

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    • The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries
    • By: Michael Scott
    • Narrated by: Michael Scott
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • In a thrilling and adventurous new history of discovery, Professor Michael Scott takes us on a global tour and traces the evolution of modern archaeology from colonial expeditions to today's cutting-edge digs, unearthing traps, curses and buried treasure along the way....

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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: 26-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe
    • By: Elizabeth Campbell
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories.

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    • A Life Amongst Clothes
    • By: Claire Wilcox
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes....

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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: 26-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • 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: 28-01-20
    • 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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    • Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution, The Conquest of Bread, An Appeal to the Young, Law and Authority, Anarchism and Other Essays, My Further Disillusionment in Russia, and More
    • By: Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman
    • Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
    • Length: 30 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Anarchism claims that there's no need for a state and that it would be better to have a society without central government. Anarchists dislike the authority of the state, but the dream of the stateless society is not a simple matter....

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    • Saving the Nation's Art in World War II
    • By: Caroline Shenton
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • As Hitler prepared to invade Poland during the sweltering summer of 1939, men and women from across London's museums, galleries and archives formulated ingenious plans to send the nation's highest prized objects to safety....

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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: 19-04-22
    • 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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