The Museum Book

Suppose you went into a museum and you didn’t know what it was. From the first
sentence of this brilliant book, Jan Mark inspires us to think. She muses on the
Muses and the word museum, on why and how people collect things, on different
kinds of museums (cabinets, buildings, villages, towns), on their contribution to
science and on the notion of classification. She examines the Elgin Marbles (saved
or stolen?), famous fakes, the dodo, and some great collectors.