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Jan Mark illustrated by Richard Holland
The Museum Book
Walker (53 pages) 9781844287499
'Wonderful and eccentric', says the back cover and this blurb is quite exact. Collage or montage illustrations with an amalgam of objects in the style of old engravings are placed throughout the book. Just a few pages in and the top half of the double pages has a steam engine, four poster bed, totem pole, Viking ship, pillars and more - there's even one of those thingummyjigs! The text positively dances around with the multiplicity of objects a museum might display from one room, one theme or period, to the next. Some things are backed up with more information, others are revisited and extended in later pages, with everything fully indulging in the wonders of the treasures and riches on view. The story of one museum, the Ashmolean, emerges but the application is to any and every collection on public display. There's lots to absorb and engross the attention here and this book will certainly appeal to the mindset that wallows in the sort of odd, quirky, eccentric appearance of this book.