Foreward / Nicholas Serota --
Preface / Maggie Fergusson --
There's life in these walls, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York / Roddy Doyle --
Rodin's sonnets in stone, Musée Rodin, Paris / Allison Pearson --
Cool under fire, The National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul / Rory Stewart --
Cabinets of wonder, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford / Frank Cottrell-Boyce --
Painting in stone, Museo Dell'Opificio Delle Pietre Dure, Florence / Margaret Drabble --
Sanctum in the city, The Frick Collection, New York / Don Paterson --
The wings of Capri, Villa San Michele, Capri / Ali Smith --
Spurned no longer, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne / Tim Winton --
The pity of war, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres / Michael Morpurgo --
Love bade me welcome, The Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA / Ann Patchett --
A plaster cast in Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensmuseum, Copenhagen / Alan Hollinghurst --
Palais of the dolls, Musée de la Poupée, Paris / Jacqueline Wilson --
The Odessaphiles, Odessa State Literary Museum, Odessa / A. D. Miller --
A smiling shrunken goddess, Corinium Museum, Cirencester / Alice Oswalk --
Sons and mothers, Ensorhuis, Ostend / John Burnside --
A home from home, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Claire Messud --
Where Sibelius fell silent, Ainola, Järvenpää / Julian Barnes --
Wordsworth's continuous force, Dove Cottage, Grasmere / Ann Wroe --
Agony to ecstasy, The Prado, Madrid / John Lanchester --
The museum of heartbreak, The Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb / Aminatta Forna --
The quiet theatres, The Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery, London / Andrew Motion --
A debt to Rudolph Leopold, Leopold Museum, Vienna / William Boyd --
Thank you for the music, ABBA: The Museum, Stockholm / Matthew Sweet --
Glasgow's palace of dreams, Kelvingrove, Glasgow / Andrew O'Hagan --
