Take an exclusive tour of the worlds most exciting museums and discover their hidden treasures.This behindthescenes guide showcases a huge range of incredible artefacts from history and reveals the hard work, care, and effort that goes into collecting, preserving, and storing them. Ever wondered what happens to an astronauts space suit after its been worn on the Moon? Or how the worlds most valuable diamond is looked after? Find out all about how museums work and the people that make it happen from how historians care for Anne Franks diary to what it takes to excavate and exhibit a wooly mammoth skeleton. Behind the Scenes at the Museum gives you exclusive access to hidden objects that arent normally on public display. It lets you into a world of animal specimens pickled in jars, priceless jewellery too valuable to be on display, and fragile papers that must be kept in carefully controlled conditions. Filled with incredible images, stepbystep explanations of exciting techniques, and job profiles of the people that make it happen, Behind the Scenes at the Museum offers unique, behindthecurtain access to the secret delights of the worlds most interesting museums.

Binding: Hardback;160 pages; Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd; Classification: YNGL; Weight: 1008 g; Dimensions: 284 x 221 x 19

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