The Museum: The Inside Story

(Hardback)

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Find out what goes on behind the scenes at a natural history museum in this illustrated non-fiction story by tour guide Dustin Growick. This gentle story follows the exploits of several characters -including a family, a school trip, and some security guards -over the course of a busy day. Along the way readers will discover how the museum team put on exhibitions and how dinosaur fossils are carefully preserved. They will also gain access to the incredible vaults underground that store 99% of a museum's collections! By the end of the book kids will have a new found respect for all of the work that goes on to make every museum experience memorable.

Author Bio

Dustin Growick is a science communicator and author who spent several years working as a tour guide at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dustin also helped conceive, launch, and build Museum Hack, a business featuring one-of-a-kind adult museum experiences.