Title: The Secret Museum
Author: Molly Oldfield
Publisher: Firefly Books 2013
Genre: Nonfiction - History, Art
Pages: 352
Rating: 3/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Nonfiction Adventure (perpetual); Dewey Decimal - 0s
In fact, a great many of the world's most precious objects are kept in secret locations, protected from public view and safe from harmful conditions. Too fragile to be handled or exposed, too likely to be stolen, or too big to display, they hide in secure darkness or locked rooms, waiting for an obsessive treasure hunter to find them.
Museum enthusiast and researcher Molly Oldfield is just that. Consumed by curiosity about what is behind the closed doors of museums' back rooms, she spent two years touring the world in search of the most extraordinary inventions, legacies and artifacts hidden from the public. She has curated the best of what she found into this remarkable collection.
The subject matter was fascinating. I loved learning little tidbits of hidden museum artifacts. Now I want to visit all these museums and see these fascinating items. Unfortunately, the writing was clunky at time. I found myself stopping often to marvel at the strange sentence constructions. Because of the writing I had to knock off a few stars. Still a very fascinating subject matter!