museums

Explores various aspects of museums, such as the word "museum, " different types of museums, their impact on science, and reasons people collect things, and discusses such topics as the Elgin Marbles and the dodo.

Eleven-year-old Theodosia's ability to detect black magic raises her suspicions about a magician known as the Great Awi Bubu, while Henry, home for the spring holidays, discovers an artifact at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities that is coveted by every black-cloaked occultist in London.

Larry goes to rescue his friends when they are moved to the Smithsonian, but he and some old and new friends must battle an Egyptian pharaoh and his army of villains for control of the tablet that brings museum exhibits to life.

Zack, trapped overnight in a museum of natural history, learns to his dismay that the Neanderthals and other exhibits come to life.

When the spacesuit of famous astronaut Sally Ride disappears from a traveling exhibit, Amal Farah, daughter of the Air and Space Museum's archivist, and her three friends, are determined to find the culprit before the exhibit is cancelled.

Samantha "Sam" Archer, her friends, and their "kindergarten buddies" are on a trip to the River City Children's Museum, which has been plagued by vandalism, and it is up to the sixth-graders and their new buddies to figure out who the vandals are and why they are set on closing the museum.

Arthur goes with his class on a field trip to the museum, but gets in trouble when he takes a wrong turn after heading for the bathroom.

Franklin and his friends go on a class trip to the museum, but Franklin is too worried about seeing the dinosaurs to enjoy the other exhibits.

Several children ignore the rule against touching the exhibits while visiting a museum of horrors, and when they begin to have symptoms of an awful curse, the children know that they must find a cure before it is too late.

When ten-year-old Tomas and his friends visit the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., he sees the Apollo 11 Lunar Module and suddenly finds that he has become Neil Armstrong as he makes his historic walk on the moon in 1969.