The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections
Arts and entertainment, Travel and geography
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
Jan Mark takes readers through museums' multifaceted history. Numerous questions answer in the books are: What is a museum? Why would anyone amass shells, words, clocks, teeth, trains, dinosaurs, mummies...or two-headed sheep? Find out where the word "museum" comes from… and what unusual items (unicorn horns? mermaids?) some early museums placed on view. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 2-3 at http://www.corestandards.org.]