Start with high-confidence museum studies & curation books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Emergence of the Modern Museum
Jonah Siegel
The Brutish Museums
Dan Hicks
Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites
Julia Rose, Jonathan Holloway
Loot
Sharon Waxman
My Hermitage
Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky
The Louvre
Genevieve Bresc-Bautier
Barnaby Phillips
Adventures in the Louvre
Elaine Sciolino
Chasing Beauty
Natalie Dykstra
Who Owns America's Past?
Robert C. Post
The Museum
Samuel J. Redman
Smithson's Gamble
Tom D. Crouch
All the Beauty in the World
Patrick Bringley
