Rick Steves' Mona Winks: Self Guided Tours of Europe's Top Museums Rick Steves doesn't just list where to travel in Europe, he leads travelers through the "Back Door," and reveals how to give every journey an extra, more authentic dimension.

Mona Winks is no exception. It's a fun, easy-to-read collection of self-guided tours covering the highlights of Europe's top 20-plus museums and cultural sights, including the Louvre, the Tate Gallery, the Uffizi, the Prado, and many more.

Afraid a visit to a museum will ruin the vacation? This irreverent, easy-to-follow guide helps visitors find the best that European museums offer, by providing all the maps, diagrams, and no-apologies opinions needed. 400 B&W photos. 65 museum diagrams.

Art Across America: A Comprehensive Guide to American Art Museums and Exhibition Galleries This guide is designed to be a portable, readable, and useful source for planning excursions to the nearly 1,700 venues covered. The intent is to be as inclusive as possible. There are listings for noncommercial galleries as well as traditional art museums. Also listed are some specialized facilities, such as ethnic museums, historic houses, marine museums, and so on, if they have significant fine arts collections.

Visitors to Chicago will find information on more than 20 museums and galleries, not only the Art Institute of Chicago but also the Du Sable Museum of African-American History, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and the State Street Bridge Gallery, located within one of the city's bridge houses.

Arrangement is alphabetical by state, community, then institution. Entries give address, phone and fax numbers, Internet address, director, admission fee, attendance, year established, membership availability, ADA compliance, parking, hours of operation, facilities (library, food service, shop, etc.), activities, publications, and a descriptive paragraph about the museum's collection.

There is no attempt to list temporary exhibits. A map of each state (and some cities) gives a rough idea of each museum's location. An index provides access by facility name. The editors have also compiled a state-by-state list of their picks among "less-visited (that is, with fewer than 50,000 reported visitors each year) but intriguing institutions."

Although much smaller than the Official Museum Directory, this well-done guide would be a welcome addition to most reference and circulating collections as a source for locating art museums, especially those that are less well known and underappreciated but deserve greater attendance.

The Official Museum Directory, which includes aquariums, zoos, science museums, children's museums, and the like, this work focuses on art museums only, listing 1680 institutions nationwide by state and city.

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The city of Rome is the largest archeological site in the world. If your idea of a good Roman holiday is uncovering the archeological mysteries of the Roman Empire, then Oxford Archeological Guides: Rome is your ideal guidebook. For such a detailed guide, this book is remarkably readable. Of the Field of Mars (Campus Martius), Claridge writes, It is the one part of Rome which continued to be quite densely inhabited after the C9 AD, becoming the center of the late medieval and Renaissance city, and is still densely inhabited today, an extraordinary blend of past and present even for Rome.

The Stock Exchange occupies a Roman temple, the boiler-rooms of the offices of the Senate are set in the ruins of Roman thermal baths, a modern theatre nestles in the shell of a Roman theatre. Many of the streets are on the lines of ancient streets, and the walls of the buildings on either side of them are often balanced directly on top of Roman walls. Among this Oxford guide's special features are 200 site plans, maps, diagrams, and photographs; a cultural and historical overview; a chronological overview; and a glossary of essential terms.

It uses star ratings to help you plan your days and divides Rome into 12 main areas: the Roman Forum, Upper Via Sacra, Palatine Hill, Imperial Forums, Campus Martius, Capitoline Hill, Circus Flaminius to Circus Maximus, Colosseum Valley and Esquiline Hill, Caelian Hill and the Via Appia, other sites, museums, and catacombs. Shaded sidebars add anecdotal interest, covering issues such as the Seven Hills, Jupiter's Dining Room, Tomb of Bibulus, the "Province" Reliefs, Madam Lucretia, Nero's New Palace, and Gladiatorial Shows. --Kathryn True Book Description Capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the center of Christian Europe, the city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world.

Here, Amanda Claridge presents an indispensable guide to all significant monuments in Rome dating from 800 BC to 600 AD. Included are such breathtaking structures as the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Mausoleums of Augustus and Hadrian, the Circus Maximus, and the Catacombs. Divided into twelve main archaeological areas in central Rome, and four in Greater Rome, this accessible guide provides a detailed overview of the sites, as well as historical reference tables listing archaeological periods, emperors, and principal surviving buildings.

The introduction offers an assessment of Roman achievement along with its status as the capital of the Roman Empire, and explains Rome's survival as the world's most complex archaeological site. Ingram The largest archaeological site in the world, Rome includes such breathtaking structures as the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Mausoleums of Augustus and Hadrian, the Circus Maximus, and the Catacombs. Maps & diagrams.