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When Nell Pratt is invited to the beloved Philadelphia children's museum, Let's Play, for a sneak preview of a newly installed exhibit based on the Harriet the Hedgehog book series, she's in for quite a shock. In the middle of the visit, one of the installers gets a severe jolt from working on an electronically animated forest creature. He recovers, but when a second man gets zapped - this time fatally - it sparks a homicide investigation, with Nell...
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Nell Pratt, president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society in Philadelphia, gets involved in an explosive mystery when an arsonist sets a series of warehouse fires that results in the death of a guard--and involves the Fireman's Museum's most prized possession.
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While searching for her friends at the Dino Festival, Clementine Wim runs into two people carrying what she thinks is the Tiled Lunch Counter (a famous painting) away from the Capitol City Art Museum, but when she checks the painting is still hanging in place--and before she can track down the thieves, and prove that the painting now in the museum is a forgery, she has to convince her friends that she was not imagining things.
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A shipment of dinosaur bones meant for a new exhibit at the Capitol City Natural History Museum has disappeared, and so have the five paleontologists who were working late at the museum, including Wilson Kipper's mother--so Wilson and his museum friends set out to solve the mystery.
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As Independence Day approaches, Raining Sam and his friend Amal see what they think is the ghost of a soldier lurking around an exhibit on the Vietnam War, after hours at the Capitol City Museum of American History--and he and his friends from the other museums are determined to find out what (or who) is behind the haunting, and why they are doing it.
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Someone is messing with the Museum of Natural History, mixing human models from the new Pleistocene Megafauna in with the dinosaur exhibits, and Wilson Kipper, whose mother works in the museum as a paleontologist, and his friends are determined to find out who is responsible for the anti-science vandalism--the new professor, her nasty daughter, or someone else entirely.
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A local politician and millionaire is donating the money for a new wing for the Capitol City Air and Space Museum, which will exhibit some of the earliest devices for astronomical observation; but Amal Farah, daughter of one of the Museum's scientists, discovers that the crates supposedly containing the telescopes are empty, and she and her friends set out to investigate.