Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max, orphans with extraordinary abilities, must find out who stole a valuable artifact--an Amazonian shrunken head--in order to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders.
The Boxcar Children investigate when things start to go wrong for the Greenfield Museum right after the institution puts a four-thousand-year-old Egyptian mummy on display.
When a series of accidents and other strange happenings at the Capitol City Natural History Museum lead to rumors that the museum is being haunted by the ghost of a Pterosaur, ten-year-old Wilson Kipper and his friends set out to solve the mystery.
Alexander's class is going on a sleepover at the Stermont Museum, but something is stealing bright, shiny objects from all over town, including the museum's treasured Ruby Scorpion, and on the night of the visit the young monster hunters finally confront the town's newest monster--a warrior covered entirely by bubble-wrap.
Katie and her third-grade class go on a field trip to the natural history museum where Katie finds herself magically transported into the body of their tour guide.
After a boy learns some of the reasons a work of art might be in a museum - it's beautiful, different, makes people feel good - he asks the museum to exhibit a new piece: his grandma!.
An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
"Little Critter visits a science museum with his classmates where they play with a tornado machine, build a potato battery, and experiment with a giant magnifying glass"--OCLC.
