I shouldn't really be recommending this volume too highly, as it's pretty much a one-use item, as far as I can tell. I say that because it could easily be looked at multiple times, but just looking is not the only interaction we have with these pages. What we're witness to is a tour of the New York Met, and all its galleries, roughly in chronological order, from antiquity and distant corners of the world right up to the last century's American modern art. The first chunk of pages is the double-page spreads involved in our tour, with some basic information about what we're seeing – and what we should be seeing. For at the end of the book we get pages and pages of stickers to place on said first chunk of pages, whereby we fill the galleries ourselves, arranging things in the order and positioning of our choice. (I had thought all the stickers would be a right jumble, but no – they're in the same page order and proportions as their intended destinations, so the 'search' for the right stickers doesn't allow for much error.) In between we get sort of answer pages, to talk a tiny bit more about the exhibits.

But – there is still a chance stickers can be put in a stupid positioning, thus marking the book down when we come to it again. And but – there is information in amongst the stickers as to what things are, especially the more exotic or unknown items – and that clearly doesn't carry over to the galleries. Bonus stickers are generally the people populating our Met as audience, so the end result of our stickering could be really quite busy, kind of hiding how special and unique all these artefacts are. Still, as an object – a tool – designed to inspire fandom for museums and the NYMet in particular, this is still a success. Curating your own world-class museum generally comes at a much greater cost than the purchase price involved here...