"This gorgeous series makes a perfect gift for creative children."
—Frances Morris, Director, Tate Modern Museum
"Visits to museums and galleries are life enhancing at any age, and ‘Take To Museums’ shows that it’s easy to start young!"
—Nancy Ireson, Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator of the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
With its stylish design, zingy illustrations and handy size to pop in a bag,
Take Me To Museums
is a must-have accompaniment to every museum or gallery visit.
The book is divided into five 'adventure' chapters. Every time children take a trip to a museum, a new adventure begins. On their journey around the gallery spaces they are encouraged to record their thoughts and draw what they see. Each chapter is unique – so on every visit they will discover something different. Packed with facts about museums all over the world, the book also includes a timeline of museum history and a glossary. To wrap it all up there’s a section for making notes and a page for comparing the five adventures.
Writer and illustrator Mary Richards is author of
The Modern Art Journal
(Tate Publishing),
Splat: The Most Exciting Artists of All Time
(Thames & Hudson) and co-author of
ArtSongs
, a set of songs about art and artists (with David Schweitzer) for Tate. Mary was Art Publisher at the Hayward Gallery and a Project Editor at Tate Publishing. She lives in London with four children, two cats and a large collection of Lego.