In E.L. Konigsburg’s 1967 children’s classic From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, siblings Claudia and James Kincaid run away from their cushy suburban home in Greenwich, Connecticut, and camp out at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Their adventure in luxury squatting lasts for three days, during which they do all the illegal things that most museum visitors only fantasize about, like lounging in Marie Antoinette’s lounge chair, bathing in the Fountain of the Muses, and using Roman sarcophagi as personal storage units.
-Hyperallergic
