{"product_id":"the-secret-museum-molly-oldfield-9780007455287","title":"The Secret Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Secret Museum is a unique treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world - curated, brought to light, and brought to life by Molly Oldfield in a beautifully illustrated collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWho knows what's hidden from view? Locked away in cabinets, secure storage and aircraft hangars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost of a museum's collection never gets seen. It sits in the quiet dark of an archive waiting for a treasure hunter or obsessive researcher to root out its very existence. Under the streets of Manhattan priceless books are shelved; brick outbuildings in London's East End house drawers of Victorian embroidery remembering foundlings long ago dead; body bags in Washington clothe space suits covered in real moon dust and in an unvisited aircraft hangar sits Auguste Piccard's extraordinary invention, the balloon gondola...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis and many other extraordinary inventions, legacies, discoveries and artefacts have been visited and curated by Molly Oldfield into a Secret Museum. Rich in atmosphere and anecdote, suffused with the surprising emotion of a personal discovery, but grounded in fascinating factual detail, this is a unique and beautifully illustrated book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Secret Museum reveals sixty unknown artefacts and stories from all five continents, from Rome to Rio and Boston to Berlin. And like the very best mornings spent at a museum it promises to be idiosyncratic, surprising and enormously good fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Artefacts in the book include: An original Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum, Harrison Schmitt's Space Suit, A piece of Newton's Apple Tree, Van Gogh's Sketchbooks, The original drawings of Wimbledon's Centre Court, Dickens' letter opener,Three pieces of Mars, and much more...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Molly Oldfield","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48874720067827,"sku":"8880002972244","price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780007455287.jpg?v=1776974742","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-secret-museum-molly-oldfield-9780007455287","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}