In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and the Prado in Madrid. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special hold that some museums have over us all.

Acclaimed novelist William Boyd visits the Leopold Museum in Vienna—a shrine to his favorite artist, Egon Schiele, whom Boyd first discovered on a postcard as a University student. In front of her favorite Rodins, Allison Pearson recalls a traumatic episode she suffered at the hands of a schoolteacher following a trip to the Musée in Paris. Neil Gaiman admires the fantastic world depicted in British outsider artist Richard Dadd's “The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,” a tiny painting that also decorated the foldout cover of a Queen album, housed in the Victorian room of Tate Britain's Pre-Raphaelite collection. Ann Patchett fondly revisits Harvard University's Museum of Natural History—which she discovered at 19, while in the throes of summer romance with a biology student named Jack.

Treasure Palaces is a treasure trove of wonders, a tribute to the diversity and power of the museums, the safe-keepers of our world's most extraordinary artifacts, and an intimate look into the deeply personal reveries we fall into when before great art.

撰稿人：

罗迪·道伊尔（Roddy Doyle）

阿利森·皮尔森（Allison Pearson）

罗利·斯图尔特（Rory Stewart）

弗兰克·科特雷尔-博伊斯（Frank Cottrell-Boyce）

玛格丽特·德拉布尔（Margaret Drabble）

唐·帕特森（Don Paterson）

艾莉·史密斯（Ali Smith）

蒂姆·温顿（Tim Winton）

迈克尔·莫波格（Michael Morpurgo）

安·帕切特（Ann Patchett）

阿兰·霍灵赫斯特（Alan Hollinghurst）

杰奎琳·威尔逊（Jacqueline Wilson）

A．D．米勒（A. D. Miller）

艾丽斯·奥斯瓦尔德（Alice Oswald）

约翰·伯恩赛德（John Burnside）

克莱尔·默萨德（Claire Messud）

朱利安·巴恩斯（Julian Barnes）

安·沃伊（Ann Wroe）

约翰·兰彻斯特（John Lanchester）

爱米娜塔·弗那（Amintta Forna）

安德鲁·莫申（Andrew Motion）

威廉·波伊德（William Boyd）

马修·斯维特（Matthew Sweet）

安德鲁·奥海根（Andrew O’Hagan）