{"product_id":"2940153894973","title":"Curiosities from the Cabinet: Objects and Voices from Britain's Museums","description":"\u003cp\u003eCuriosities from the Cabinet features 36 museum objects including an ancient Babylonian tablet, a 21st-century webpage, a skeleton marionette and a colony of live ants, found in UK museums from Weston-super-Mare to the Shetland Islands. We hear over 40 people from inside and outside the museum world – curators, conservators, visitors, users, artists – talking about these objects with knowledge, passion and even tenderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterviewees include British Museum Assyriologist Irving Finkel explaining the oldest known map of the world; David Kohn of the American Museum of Natural History describing how Darwin's weed garden contributed to On the Origin of Species; and novelist and ‘Janeite’ Cindy Jones spinning her own story around Jane Austen’s writing table. This book will inform and intrigue anyone who likes visiting museums.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rebecca Reynolds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070679433456,"sku":"2940153894973","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153894973_p0.jpg?v=1764058941","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153894973","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}