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\"Konigsburg<\/a>

From the cover of Frankweiler.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

Long before museums were pandering to callow visitors bearing selfie sticks<\/a>, they were trying to attract young people the old-fashioned way. Any big collection worth its salt has had some sort of children\u2019s guide for decades now: museums encourage kids to look for dogs and cats in Dutch tavern scenes, giving them Bingo-style checklists, colorful maps, and bits of trivia. (Fact: pointillist paintings are made up of lots of little dots.)<\/p>\n

The Met has always had an especially good kids\u2019 program, and one indication of this is how enthusiastically\u2014and diplomatically\u2014they embrace<\/a> the classic E. L. Konigsburg novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/em>. For the uninitiated, though I suspect there are few of you: this book chronicles the exploits of the Kincaid siblings, who run away and hide out in the Metropolitan Museum. There, they sleep in a sixteenth-century bed, bathe (and fish for coins) in a fountain, and, into the bargain, solve an art-world mystery. <\/p>\n

The author makes all this sound pretty plausible: the museum has no censors, minimal security, and an enviably cheap cafeteria. So the Met\u2019s Frankweiler<\/em>-themed written tour-guide has to bad-cop it pretty early on. \u201cYou can\u2019t, of course, camp out here,\u201d it says, with irritatingly adult logic, \u201cbut you can have an adventure each time you visit (and at least rest your feet if you get tired).\u201d Quite the consolation prize.<\/p>\n

To preempt any literal-minded juvenile outrage, it goes on to inform contemporary children, gently, of a few other modernizations. The curtained bed where Claudia sleeps, for instance, isn\u2019t around any more, \u201cbut plenty of beds fit for royalty are.\u201d And \u201calthough the Fountain of the Muses is no longer on display, you can see many other beautiful fountains and pools throughout the Museum.\u201d The author knows this won\u2019t really placate kids, and that they\u2019re still going to attempt to run away\u2014but the museum has to try. \u201cIf you\u2019ve read the book, you probably saw that much has changed since Claudia and Jamie camped out here, but many wonderful works of art can always be seen,\u201d the written tour-guide pleads. \u201cEven though we can\u2019t invite you to spend the night (and please don\u2019t try on your own!), you can still have a great time during regular Museum hours.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The literature hastens to assure visitors that they need not be familiar with the book to enjoy such an excursion, but it\u2019s clear the writer is fluent in Frankweiler<\/em>; the enthusiasm with which he or she directs children to seek out Egyptian jewelry and Grecian urns is unpatronizing and appealing. And then there\u2019s this wonderfully macabre bit:<\/p>\n

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While you\u2019re still in the Egyptian galleries, find something else that caught Claudia\u2019s fancy. She especially liked a beautiful bronze sculpture of a cat, which can be found in the left-hand corridor as you walk back from the Tomb of Perneb at the entrance to the galleries. Can you guess what this statue was used for? It\u2019s actually a coffin and would have held a mummified cat. Cats were the sacred animals of Bastet, goddess of the household, and cat mummies were donated to temples dedicated to the goddess and buried nearby.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I urge any child\u2014or adult\u2014to follow the tour not just because I admire this writer\u2019s style, but because the Met has included a reminiscence by Konigsburg herself about the book\u2019s inspiration. It will come as no surprise to any that it\u2019s a deeply peculiar document, dispassionate, filled with unappetizing food, and indifferent to the likability of her child characters.<\/p>\n

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The following summer, I read High Wind in Jamaica<\/em> by Richard Hughes. It relates the adventures of some children who, while being transported from their island home to England, are captured by pirates. On the open seas in the company of those pirates, the children lose their thin veneer of civilization and become piratical themselves. Shortly after reading that novel, my family went on vacation to Yellowstone National Park. One day we went on a picnic.<\/p>\n

After buying salami and bread, chocolate milk and paper cups, paper plates and napkins, and potato chips and pickles, we got into the car and drove and drove but could not find a picnic table. So when we came to a clearing in the woods, I suggested that we eat there. We all crouched slightly above the ground and spread out our meal. Then the complaints began. The chocolate milk was getting warm, and there were ants all over everything, and the sun was melting the icing on the cupcakes. This was hardly roughing it, and yet my small group could think of nothing but the discomfort.<\/p>\n

Unlike the children in the novel I had read, my children could never become barbarians even if they were captured by pirates. Civilization was not a veneer to them; it was a crust. If they ever wanted to run away, where would they go? Certainly, they would never consider a place less civilized than their suburban home. They would want all those conveniences plus a few extra dashes of luxury. Probably, they wouldn\u2019t consider a place even a smidgen less elegant than The Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review, and the <\/em>Daily\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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