50 Great Museum Themed Books for Kids

Happy International Museums Day! For this week’s book round-up, I thought I would do something a little bit different, so I’m sharing a whistle-stop tour of our 50 (!) favourite museum books for kids! You can see me introduce them all in my YouTube video below, and further down you can find a list of all the titles and authors. I’ll no doubt be reviewing some of these books in more detail some time down the line but for now, to celebrate International Museums Day, let’s take it away:

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Bibliography of featured books:

1. Maisy Goes to the Museum, by Lucy Cousins
2. Miffy at the Gallery, by Dick Bruna
3. Squeaking of Art, by Monica Wellington
4. The Museum, by Susan Verde & Peter H. Reynolds
5. Lulu and the Flying Babies, by Posy Simmonds
6. The Shape Game, by Anthony Browne
7. Visiting the Art Museum, by Laurene Brown & Marc Brown
8. Meet Me at the Art Museum, by David Goldin
9. Art Dog, by Thacher Hurd
10. William and the Missing Masterpiece, by Helen Hancocks
11. Time Flies, by Eric Rohmann
12. Gaspard and Lisa at the Museum, by Anne Gutman & Georg Hallensleben
13. Curious George’s Dinosaur Discovery, by Margret & H.A.Rey
14. Harry and the Dinosaurs at the Museum, by Ian Whybrow & Adrian Reynolds
15. Bailey at the Museum, by Harry Bliss
16. Museum Trip, by Barbara Lehman
17. Lost in the Toy Museum, by David Lucas
18. Mi and Museum City, by Linda Sarah
19. Kubbes Museum, by Ashild Kanstad Johnson (available in German)
20. Homer Henry Hudson’s Curio Museum, by Zack Rock
21. Matthew’s Dream, by Leo Lionni
22. Norman the Doorman, by Don Freeman
23. Micawber, by John Lithgow & C F OPayne
24. Arnold’s Extraordinary Art Museum, by Catherine Ingram & Jim Stoten
25. Babar’s Museum of Art, by Jean De Brunhoff
26. The Museum of Me, by Emma Lewis
27. You Can’t Take a Balloon in to the Metropolitan Museum, by Jaqueline Preiss Weitzman & Robin Preiss Glasser
28. How the Sphinx Got to the Museum, by Jessie Hartland
29. Museum ABC, by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
30. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L.Konigsburg
31. Speeding Down the Spiral, by Deborah Goodman Davis & Sophy Naess
32. I’d Like the Goo-gen-heim, by A.C.Hollingsworth
33. The Guggenheim Mystery, by Robin Stevens & Siobhan Dowd
34. How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum, by Lois Wyse, Molly Rose Goldman & Marie-Louise Gay
35. The Night at the Museum, by Milan Trenc
36. How the Dinosaur Got to the Museum, by Jessie Hartland
37. Rocks in His Head, by Carol Otis Hurst
38. Jack in Search of Art, by Arlene Boehm
39. S as in Sky, by the Budapest Museum of Fine Art
40. Who Stole the Mona Lisa, by Ruthie Knapp & Jill McElmurry
41. Linnea in Monet’s Garden, by Christina Bjork & Lena Anderson
42. The Green Fingers of Monsieur Monet, by Giancarlo Ascari & Pia Valentinis
43. The Queen & Mr Brown – A Night in the Natural History Museum, by James Franci Wilkins
44.  Ottloline at the Natural History Museum, by Sally Craddock & Corinne Pearlman
45. Ottoline at the British Museum, by Sally Craddock & Corinne Pearlman
46. Katie’s Picture Show, by James Mayhew
47. Dogs’ Night, by Meredith Hopper & Allan Curless
48. Mrs Soane’s Dog Fanny, by Mirabel Cecil & Francesca Martin
49. Max & Zap at the National Museum of Scotland, by Molly McPherson & Natasha Rimmington
50. What Maisie Did Next, by Aileen Paterson

One of my favourite museum picture books is actually missing from this list, because it seems to have disappeared from our library. It’s called ‘Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day‘, by Amy de la Haye & Emily Sutton, and features the V&A museum in London.

Do you have any favourite kids books featuring museums, either from list this or any others? If not, which book from this list takes your fancy? Do feel free to share in the comment below!

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