One of the best places to go to for some in-depth researching is a museum. You can find answers to your questions from the exhibits, on information boards, from computer screens, audio guides or human guides. Displays often show how ordinary people lived. Libraries contain books that provide specialised information and museum shops sell books and objects that can help you reconstruct the background to your novel.
Miriam Drori, Author 
8 replies on “2015 A to Z Challenge: M is for MUSEUMS”
The Israel Museum is definitely one I want to visit!
Looking forward to seeing you here!
I love museum shops! One, they are like a mini-exhibition in themselves (of consumerism, I guess), but they also sell a lot of useful stuff! For example, museum shops all around Rome sell posters depicting Rome at different points in its history… Extremely useful! 🙂
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That’s very true. I expect to be looking for useful stuff if I decide to write the novel I’m thinking about.
That’s a great tip. My eldest son is revising for history exams next month, and went to London to see an exhibition at the Science Museum on the topic – it brought it to life for him in a way just reading about it didn’t do.
Annalisa, writing A-Z vignettes, at Wake Up, Eat, Write, Sleep
What a good idea. I hadn’t thought of a science museum as being useful for history.
Museums are often where I find the initial inspiration to write!
I’m not surprised.