In a story posted in the travel section of The Australian on 29 April 2017, author and former manager of Art Gallery of NSW bookshop Brian Turner observes, “Art museums are a favorite mise-en-scene for novelists’ storylines and denouements.” He cites Dan Brown’s popular Da Vinci Code novels as an obvious example, but includes others as well and concludes by offering a reading list for traveling “museum obsessives”:

“In-flight reading while returning home? Museum obsessives should relish the last chapter of The Museum of Innocence for [Orhan] Pamuk’s exotic small museums listing—Proust’s house in Illiers-Combray in central France; Paris’s Musee Edith Piaf; New York’s Glove Museum and Baltimore’s Edgar Allan Poe House. Also read John Updike’s short story, ‘Museums and Women.’ Updike met his future wife in a museum and assures readers they offer the opposite to what we seek in churches, but you must decide for yourself.”

Read the full article:  “Galleries and museums set the scene in fiction and real life.”