museums

Teaches readers about what field trips are and what you can learn from a field trip to a museum.

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.

Relates the story of the creation of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, covering one hundred years of hoping, planning, constructing the building, and assembling its collections.

A biography of medical innovator Thomas D. M?tter, a Philadelphia plastic surgeon of the nineteenth century who pioneered the use of ether and the sterilization of surgical tools, and who left behind a collection of medical oddities that are today housed in the M?tter Museum.

"It looks like science-loving Delia Bean's summer is going to be pretty boring. Her friends are hanging out without her and taking her little brother to the pool might be all the excitement she's going to get. But a trip to visit her Uncle Lyndon is about to change all that. Uncle Lyndon is the curator of the Earth Time Museum--a place outside normal time where Earth's greatest wonders are displayed--and he's offered Delia a coveted internship at the museum. But to get the coolest job ever, she'll have to travel back and forth in time--and compete against five other candidates from all over time. It's gong to take all their combined skills and knowledge to survive dinosaurs, tears in time, and a renegade time traveller whose schemes might just destroy the whole Museum"--Flap of front cover.

While on vacation in Costa Rica, Scooby and the gang investigate when a dinosaur projection at the National History Museum springs to life and threatens to destroy the museum's exhibits.

Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures. Presented in French.

On the class trip to the museum, Franklin worries about real dinosaurs until he understands they are real dinosaur bones.