The Secret Museum
$52.00
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2025
Summary
Unveiling the Hidden Wonders: A Journey Through the Secret Museum
The 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.
Who knows what’s hidden from view? Locked away in cabinets, secure storage and aircraft hangars.
Most of a museum’s collection never gets seen. It sits in the quiet…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008760427 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 000876042X |
| Author: | Molly Oldfield |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Collins |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.26kg |
| Dimensions: | 252mm x 195mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
‘A unique tome… beautifully researched.’ The Sun
‘Startlingly brilliant … I’ve rarely read a book so fuelled by sheer enthusiasm. It’s all quite delightful, a brilliant idea executed with great charm and unceasing joie de vivre’ Daily Mail
‘Oldfield’s genius is to see that museums have more stuff than they can display, and to persuade curators to show her their buried treasures … her cabinet of curiosities reveals very engaging personality’ Times
‘[Molly Oldfield] selects 60 of the most interesting and iconic artefacts from museum archives … and tells their stories in fact, fiction, history and enthusiastic, interesting anecdote’ Saga Magazine
‘This gorgeous golden-jacketed book is totally brilliant … It’s one of those rare solution presents too, great for anyone of any age’ A Little Bird
About The Author
Molly Oldfield
Molly has been a writer and researcher on 9 series of the landmark BBC1 programme QI, presented by Stephen Fry, and has spent that time honing her ability to bring the most interesting and entertaining fragments of information to light. She also writes a weekly QI column in the Saturday Telegraph and researches QI’s sister Radio 4 programme, The Museum of Curiosity.
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