A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.

When Celestine momentarily loses Ernest at the museum, she fears that he prefers the paintings to her.

Dumped by her boyfriend, a New York art gallery assistant creates an exhibit for souvenirs from past relationships.

Housekeeper Amelia Bedelia visits an art museum, where her confusion leads to surprising results.

While searching for her friends at the Dino Festival, Clementine Wim runs into two people carrying what she thinks is the Tiled Lunch Counter (a famous painting) away from the Capitol City Art Museum, but when she checks the painting is still hanging in place--and before she can track down the thieves, and prove that the painting now in the museum is a forgery, she has to convince her friends that she was not imagining things.

When a priceless sculpture disappears from the Capitol City Art Museum, thirteen-year-old Clementine Wim, daughter of an assistant curator, and her three friends set out to solve the mystery and recover the Statue of Gudea.

"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"-- "Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a temporary refuge that became his home away from...

The author/illustrator describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever.