And like the very best mornings spent at a museum it promises to be idiosyncratic, surprising and enormously good fun. The Secret Museum reveals sixty unknown artefacts and stories from all five continents, from Rome to Rio and Boston to Berlin.
Rich in atmosphere and anecdote, suffused with the surprising emotion of a personal discovery, but grounded in fascinating factual detail, this is a unique and beautifully illustrated book. This and many other extraordinary inventions, legacies, discoveries and artefacts have been visited and curated by Molly Oldfield into a Secret Museum. Under the streets of Manhattan priceless books are shelved brick outbuildings in London's East End house drawers of Victorian embroidery remembering foundlings long ago dead body bags in Washington clothe space suits covered in real moon dust and in an unvisited aircraft hangar sits Auguste Piccard's extraordinary invention, the balloon gondola. SISO PIM Niveau/leeftijd Winkelprijs Bibliotheekprijs The secret museum The secret museum / Molly Oldfield editor Craig Adams illustrations Hennie Haworth.
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