museums

Describes successful hoaxes and hoaxers from the Middle Ages to 2002, and presents a gullibility test and a further-reading list.

While exploring a trolley car museum, eleven-year-old Mary Rose and her younger sister Jo-Beth encounter voices from nowhere and other strange events that make them think the museum is haunted.

A young girl takes her grandmother on an outing to the natural history museum.

Features illustrations and text based on exhibits at The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, VA.

Wilhelmina Cole Hollday relates how she founded the first museum for women artists in America, documenting her experiences in finding a location, raising funds, and establishing an endowment for the museum; and contains 170 illustrations.

Annotated lists of books and other materials, including videos and CD-ROMs, that support study of the Holocaust.

While Katie and her class are on a field trip to the museum, Katie turns into their tour guide and causes a big disaster.

Relates the story of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from the planning and construction of the building; to the design of the exhibits; and finally, to the participation of the first visitors.

Traces the history of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, which opened in Washington, D.C., in 1993 and was built to educate people on the horrors of the Holocaust and honor the millions of people who suffered at the hands of the Nazis.

Contains an illustrated guide to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. and includes nearly two hundred full-color photographs of historic aircraft and spacecraft such as the Wright Brothers' Flyer, Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 5B Vega, and Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis.".