Haunting Museums

John Schuster

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The spectacularly successful move A Night at the Museum was a fantastic look at the off-hours wonders of the American Museum of Natural History. However, some of the real behind-the-scenes stories are more fantastic than anything a screenwriter could dream up. Haunting Museums covers these overlooked bits of history including curses, mistaken dinosaurs, conspiracy plots of the founding fathers, spectral evidence of the afterlife, and other unsettling matters on full display.

Contents include: The Carnegie Sauropods, Or Bring Me the Head of Apatosaurus Louisae – the story of a dinosaur on display for close to a half a century with the wrong head.

What’s on that Broad Stripe with Those Bright Stars? – the quizzical mark on the flag that is known as the Star Spangled banner.

The 1897 Living Eskimo Exhibit – where living people were put on display and turned over to the taxidermist for “preservation" after they died

Man-eaters at the Museum: The Lions That Stopped a Railroad – the story of the Maneless lions made legendary by the movie the Ghost in the Darkness

So Where is Amelia Earhart? – the exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum of the most famous missing aviatrix of all time.

Along with many other entertaining and fantastic stories.

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Introduction

 

Museums—and Why Haunting Them Is a Good Thing

 

Museum.

 

You say the word and what comes to mind.

 

A dusty old compendium of stationary exhibits that pale next to their Disneyfied theme park brethren?

 

A stodgy old gallery of oils and marble that—to paraphrase Denis Leary's character in the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair—only really concern some very silly rich people?

 

A foreboding lair of the unknown where something long

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"Every museum worth visiting is measured by its collections, because each of those specimens, objects, and artifacts has stories to tell.  The best stories instruct, inform, and inspire us, and Haunting Museums brings together two dozen of the more remarkable ones. They show wonder and mystery running amuck in 'the place of Muses.'"--B. D. Patterson, MacArthur Curator of Mammals, Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History

"John Schuster's collection of weird, wonderful, and true stories from  museums all over the world is a must-read for anyone who (like me) is enraptured by the fascinating byways of history."--Michael Dobson, co-author of MacArthur's War and former staff member, Smithsonian Institution's  National Air and Space Museum

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John Schuster

JOHN SCHUSTER is a scout and development editor for the Literary Group International. He divides his time between New York and California.

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Haunting Museums
John Schuster

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Tom Doherty Associates
Forge Books
April 2009
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ISBN: 9780765322920
ISBN10: 0765322927
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 272 pages
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