{"product_id":"the-secret-museum","title":"The Secret Museum","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008760427\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho knows what’s hidden from view? Locked away in cabinets, secure storage and aircraft hangars.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\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 orig\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HARPERCOLLINS PUB","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41530608648325,"sku":"PR404046","price":91.4,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNY2E721CUOE.jpg?v=1772151471","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-secret-museum","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}