Treasure Palaces
eBook - ePub

Treasure Palaces

Great Writers Visit Great Museums

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Treasure Palaces

Great Writers Visit Great Museums

About this book

From a stunning villa on sunny Capri with Ali Smith to an unlikely temple in the heart of Copenhagen with Alan Hollinghurst, Treasure Palaces brings together over twenty of the world's greatest writers to give their own personal tours of the museums that have awed, haunted and inspired them. Join Andrew Motion as he muses on writerly methods in the British Library, or Matthew Sweet at the hands-on joy of the ABBA museum. Julian Barnes meditates on Jean Sibelius's music, as well as the composer's apple corer, while visiting his home in Helsinki. Jacqueline Wilson encounters the dolls of Le Musée de la Poupée, Tim Winton remembers his first bare-foot encounter with the National Gallery of Victoria, and Aminatta Forna ponders love tokens in The Museum of Broken Relationships. From mausoleums to massive galleries, from London and New York to Kabul and Zagreb, Treasure Palaces explores some of the world's greatest - and sometimes surprising - museums. The result is a collection of moving, lyrical essays that speak to the enduring power of museums in our cultural life, and will leave you longing to revisit your favourite treasure palace or looking for a new one to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. There’s Life in These Walls
  5. Rodin’s Sonnets in Stone
  6. Cool Under Fire
  7. Cabinets of Wonder
  8. Painting in Stone
  9. Sanctum in the City
  10. The Wings of Capri
  11. Spurned No Longer
  12. The Pity of War
  13. Love Bade Me Welcome
  14. A Plaster Cast in Copenhagen
  15. Palais of the Dolls
  16. The Odessaphiles
  17. A Smiling Shrunken Goddess
  18. Sons and Mothers
  19. A Home from Home
  20. Where Sibelius Fell Silent
  21. Wordsworth’s Continuous Force
  22. Agony to Ecstasy
  23. The Museum of Heartbreak
  24. The Quiet Theatres
  25. A Debt to Rudolph Leopold
  26. Thank You for the Music
  27. Glasgow’s Palace of Dreams
  28. About the authors
  29. Illustrations