''Museum Secrets'' is a TV series on History Television in Canada and a website with videos and games exploring the world's renowned museums and their most enigmatic objects. Narrated by Canadian actor

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, the TV series ran for three seasons. ''Museum Secrets'' was produced by Kensington Communications Inc. The show won two awards at the

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in 2014 for Best Factual Series and Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series The Royal Ontario Museum held a special exhibit during winter 2011, featuring objects from the ''Museum Secrets'' series. Several Canadian newspapers previewed the exhibit: ''

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Broadcasts

; History Television in Canada ; Historia in French Canada ; BBC Knowledge in Australia and New Zealand ; Yesterday channel (UKTV) in the UK ; National Geographic Channel (Canada) ;Smithsonian Channel (US) ;TVB J2 (Hong Kong) ;Canal Encuentro (Argentina)

Seasons

Each season, the series travels to the world's greatest museums in search of the mysteries behind their objects.

Season 1 episodes

* "Inside the

Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ...

" (Toronto, Canada) * "Inside the

Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history scientific collection, collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, Fungus, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleo ...

" (London, United Kingdom) * "Inside the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...

" (Paris, France) * "Inside the

Vatican Museums The Vatican Museums (; ) are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the best-known Roman sculptures and ...

" (Rome, Italy) * "Inside the

Egyptian Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum (, Egyptian Arabic: ) (also called the Cairo Museum), located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Ancient Egypt, Egyptian antiquities in the world. It hou ...

" (Cairo, Egypt) * "Inside the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...

" (New York City, United States)

Season 2 episodes

*"Inside the

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the large ...

" (St. Petersburg, Russia) *"Inside the

Topkapı Palace Museum Topkapı ("cannonball gate"), sometimes spelled Topkapi outside of Turkey, is a Turkish word that may refer to: Places * Topkapı, Besni, a village in the district of Besni, Adıyaman Province, Turkey * Topkapı, Fatih, a neighbourhood of Istanbul ...

" (Istanbul, Turkey) *"Inside the

National Archaeological Museum of Athens The National Archaeological Museum () in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It is considered one of the greatest museums in the world and ...

" (Athens, Greece) * "Inside the

American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconn ...

" (New York City, United States) * "Inside the

Imperial War Museum The Imperial War Museum (IWM), currently branded "Imperial War Museums", is a British national museum. It is headquartered in London, with five branches in England. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civ ...

" (London, Duxford and Manchester; United Kingdom) * "Inside the

National Museum of Anthropology National Museum of Anthropology may refer to: * National Museum of Anthropology (Manila), in the Philippines * , first directed by David Joaquín Guzmán, in El Salvador * Museo Nacional de Antropología (Madrid), national museum of anthropology ...

" (Mexico City, Mexico) * "Inside the

Pergamon Pergamon or Pergamum ( or ; ), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos (), was a rich and powerful ancient Greece, ancient Greek city in Aeolis. It is located from the modern coastline of the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north s ...

and

Neues Museum The Neues Museum (, ''New Museum'') is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Built from 1843 to 1855 by order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles, ...

s" (Berlin, Germany) * "Inside the

Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ( "Vienna Museum of art history, Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, i ...

" (Vienna, Austria)

Season 3 episodes

* "Inside the

Palacio Real de Madrid The Royal Palace of Madrid () is the official residence of the Spanish royal family at the city of Madrid, although now used only for state ceremonies. The palace has of floor space and contains 3,418 rooms. It is the largest royal palace in Eu ...

" (Madrid, Spain) * "Inside the

Israel Museum The Israel Museum (, ''Muze'on Yisrael'', ) is an Art museum, art and archaeology museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world's leading Encyclopedic museum, encyclopa ...

" (Jerusalem, Israel) * "Inside the

Uffizi Gallery The Uffizi Gallery ( ; , ) is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums and the most visited, it is also one of ...

" (Florence, Italy) * "Inside the

State Historical Museum The State Historical Museum () of Russia is a museum of History of Russia, Russian history located between Red Square and Manezhnaya Square, Moscow, Manege Square in Moscow. The museum's exhibitions range from relics of prehistoric tribes that li ...

" (Moscow, Russia) * "Inside the

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, Education center, education and Research institute, research centers, created by the Federal government of the United States, U.S. government "for the increase a ...

" (Washington D.C., United States) * "Inside the

Château de Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines Department of Île-de-France region in France. The palace is owned by the government of F ...

" (Versailles, France) * "Inside the

Royal Museums Greenwich Royal Museums Greenwich is an organisation comprising four museums in Greenwich Greenwich ( , , ) is an List of areas of London, area in south-east London, England, within the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Greater L ...

" (London, United Kingdom) * "Inside the Bardo National Museum" (Tunis, Tunisia)

Interactive

The program's website features shorter web videos for the 14 episodes and an object navigator with 90 objects.

Awards and nominations

;Canadian Screen Awards, 2014: * Best Factual Series * Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series ;History Makers Awards, 2012 (now IMPACT Awards): * Best Interactive Production * Most Innovative Production ;26th Annual Gemini Awards, 2011: * Best Cross-platform Project Non-fiction (Robert Lang and David Oppenheim) * Barbara Sears Award for Best Editorial Research (Rebecca Snow) * Best Original Music Score for a Documentary Program or Series (Eric Cadesky and Nick Dyer) ;Interactive Rockie Awards at Banff World Media Festival, 2011: * Best Cross-platform Project

References

{{reflist, 2 History (Canadian TV network) original programming Television series by Corus Entertainment 2011 Canadian television series debuts 2014 Canadian television series endings 2010s Canadian reality television series