They successfully hide in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a week, hiding in toilet stalls while the guards make their rounds and blending in with school tour groups during the day. She decides to bring her brother Jamie, who has a great deal of money from carefully saving his allowance and beating his friend Bruce at cards.Īfter they find a 10-fare ticket with only 9 rides punched out, the children see their chance and take a train to New York City. She is particularly infuriated by what she perceives as ill treatment by her family, so she decides to run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (such a glamorous setting suits her). Frankweiler to her lawyer Saxonberg, this novel details the adventures of Claudia and Jamie Kincaid.Ĭlaudia is an intelligent twelve-year-old girl who loves nice things and is easily frustrated. In 1965, the Met did buy a work for $225 that turned out to be the handiwork of Leonardo da Vinci.Written in the form of an extended letter from Mrs. Frankweiler. If the story sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is true-at least partially. In The Mixed-up Files, protagonists Claudia and Jamie find themselves chasing down the origins of an angel statue possibly carved by Michelangelo that the Met bought for a bargain basement price of $250, only to discover Mrs. In a special letter published in the Met’s magazine, Konigsburg wrote: “How had that lonely piece of popcorn arrived on the seat of that blue silk chair? Had someone sneaked in one night-it could not have happened during the day-slipped behind the barrier, sat in that chair, and snacked on popcorn? For a long time after leaving the Museum that day, I thought about that piece of popcorn on the blue silk chair and how it got there.”Īt the heart of Konigsburg’s story is also a juicy art mystery.
Since the chair was off limits, blocked off with a velvet rope, her curiosity about how the popcorn had landed in such an unlikely place ran wild. During a visit to the museum with her children, Konigsburg spotted a single popcorn kernel on a blue silk chair that was displayed in one of the museum’s period rooms.
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