Books on museums certainly keep coming. The historian Randolph Starn rightly noted in 2005 that the phenomenon of museology had burgeoned in little more than a decade, and the problem was now “how to navigate a flood of literature” (“A Historian’s Brief Guide to New Museum Studies,” The American Historical Review 110, no. 1 [February 2005]: 68). Andrew McClellan, whose Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris...