WHEN ARTHUR AND D.W. travel to New York City with their parents, they visit the Statue of Liberty, a museum, and they even see a Broadway show! But D.W. is most excited about visiting Mary Moo-Cow Palace with her Mary Moo-Cow doll. When D.W. doesn’t follow her parents’ rule and goes off by herself, the family must find her. Luckily, Arthur knows just where to find D.W.—Mary Moo-Cow Palace, of course!
Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Curators consider visitors’ interactions with objects and with one another, how our bodies move through displays, how our eyes grasp objects, how we learn and how we feel. Inside the Lost Museum documents the work museums do and suggests ways these institutions can enrich the educational and aesthetic experience of their visitors. Woven throughout Inside the Lost Museum is the story of the Jenks Museum at Brown University, a nineteenth-century display of natural history, anthropology, and curiosities that disappeared a century ago. The Jenks Museum’s past, and a recent effort by artist Mark Dion, Steven Lubar, and their students to reimagine it as art and history, serve as a framework for exploring the long record of museums’ usefulness and service. Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every collection and exhibition. Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples. Inside the Lost Museum speaks to the hunt, the find, and the reveal that make curating and visiting exhibitions and using collections such a rewarding and vital pursuit.
During a class visit to the museum, Arthur needs to make a quick visit to the boys’ lavatory. But a wrong turn leads him into a diorama of life-size models of Pilgrims celebrating the first Thanksgiving . . . just as Mr. Ratburn and his class are about to study it. Will Arthur be in big trouble?
Arthur and D.W. take Baby Kate and Pal to the neighborhood street fair. But suddenly Baby Kate starts crying. Arthur sends D.W. to buy Kate an ice cream cone, and she carefully ties Pal's leash to a bench outside the store. But when she comes out, Pal has squirmed out of his collar! Includes two pages of word stickers.
Arthur's mother tells him to have a garage sale to get rid of all the junk in his room. But, when his friends offer him really cool trades for his stuff rather than money, he ends up with a whole new set of junk.
When Arthur's best friend Buster leaves town to visit his father for a month, Buster promises to send postcards to Arthur. Every day Arthur looks for a postcard in the mail, but finds nothing from Buster. When Arthur learns that all his friends at school have heard from Buster, Arthur is crushed--until the postman sets things right again the day before Buster's scheduled return.
After lying about what happened to his homework, Arthur has such a bad dream about being "in a pickle" that he decides to tell the truth. Includes stickers to match with words in text.
Arthur is in top form as he competes at a Middle Ages fair. Arthur fans who are ready to read on their own now have a new chapter book to add to their collection. This book features a longer adventure with Arthur, D.W. and the rest of the gang. Illustrations.
Get ready for the cutest aardvark in the world - ARTHUR! He's an eight-year-old read-a-holic sweetie with the cheekiest, bossiest little sister ever - D. W. Wherever ARTHUR and Buster, the Brain, Muffy and Francine hang-out, there's always adventure. So settle down, snuggle-up and get stickering. . . . GLASSES FOR D. W. Whatever big brother ARTHUR'S got, baby sis D. W. wants too and she thinks his glasses are so cool she wants a special pair - even though her eyesight is perfect! Pink heart-shaped love glasses, sparkly diamond-encrusted specs, goggles with built-in windscreen wipers. . . . ARTHUR thinks D. W. 's glasses obsession is getting out of control, so he invents a special brotherly miracle cure. . . .
Sue Ellen's lost her diary, the diary she's had since she was five years old, containing all her thoughts on everything and everyone. So Arthur and friends set out to find it for her. But their imaginations go wild wondering what she may have written about them and when they do find the diary, can they control their curiosity?
