Museum Secrets (2011)
Museum Secrets combines surprising discoveries about things we all recognize with amazing revelations about things we’ve never seen before. Every episode travels to one of the world’s top museums to tell the stories of six irreplaceable artifacts. For each of these treasures the series myth-busts familiar legends with cutting edge research and technology, and uncovers a fascinating secret. The 22 museums featured in the series are renowned for their rich collections, stunning architecture, and the prominent roles they have played in the history of art, culture, research and human achievement.
📺 Seasons & Episodes
Specials2 episodes
Season 16 episodes
1. Inside the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
⏱ 44 minFrom a medieval hand-grenade to an extremely rare dinosaur, discover the secrets inside the Royal Ontario Museum.
2. Inside the Natural History Museum, London
⏱ 44 minFrom Darwin's original specimens to a lost workshop that inspired James Bond, discover the secrets of Britain's Natural History Museum.
3. Inside the Louvre, Paris
⏱ 44 minFrom murdered kings to stolen masterpieces, discover the secrets inside the Louvre.
4. Inside the Vatican Museums, Rome
⏱ 44 minFrom Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes to the fall of the Knights Templar, discover the secrets inside the Vatican Museums.
5. Inside the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
⏱ 44 minFrom the mystery of a Pharaoh's gold to the strange practice of animal mummification, discover the secrets inside the Egyptian Museum.
6. Inside the Metropolitan Museum, New York City
⏱ 44 minFrom the mystery of a king's madness to a silver chalice some think is the Holy Grail, discover the secrets inside the Metropolitan Museum.
Season 28 episodes
1. Inside the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul
⏱ 44 minFrom assassins who plot to poison a Sultan to bitter enemies who sign the world's first peace treaty, discover the secrets inside the Topkapi Palace Museum.
2. Inside the American Museum of Natural History, New York City
⏱ 44 minFrom a dinosaur embryo that solves a murder mystery to a spacecraft catching a comet's tail, discover the secrets inside the American Museum of Natural History.
3. Inside the Imperial War Museum, London
⏱ 44 minFrom Churchill risking his life in the Blitz to 21st Century soldiers who become invisible, discover the secrets inside the Imperial War Museum.
4. Inside the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
⏱ 44 minFrom ancient athletes who kick a severed head to a peasant dress that brings down an empire, discover the secrets inside the National Museum of Anthropology.
5. Inside the Pergamon and Neues Museums, Berlin
⏱ 44 minFrom Vikings who break unbreakable swords to curators who solve the world's hardest jigsaw puzzle, discover the secrets inside the Pergamon and Neues Museums.
6. Inside the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
⏱ 44 minFrom the alchemy of turning silver into gold to a dance craze that changed history, discover the secrets inside the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
7. Inside the National Archeological Museum of Athens
⏱ 44 minFrom a dodgy archeologist who discovers a golden mask to an ancient gadget that reveals the future, discover the secrets inside the National Archaeological Museum.
8. Inside the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
⏱ 44 minFrom ancient mummies who sport tattoos to re-examining who really killed Rasputin, discover the secrets inside the State Hermitage Museum.
Season 38 episodes
1. Inside the Palacio Real, Madrid
⏱ 44 minFrom a clock that runs on witchcraft to a 21st Century king who outfoxes a fascist, discover the secrets inside the Palacio Real.
2. Inside the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
⏱ 44 minFrom a scientist who recreates the crucifixion to an ancient amulet that proves Star Trek's Spock is Jewish, discover the secrets inside the Israel Museum.
3. Inside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
⏱ 44 minFrom a famous artist who vanished to a traitorous Nazi who saved the day, discover the secrets inside the Uffizi Gallery.
4. Inside the State Historical Museum, Moscow
⏱ 44 minFrom the duel that killed a genius to Lenin’s Rolls-Royce, discover the secrets inside the State Historical Museum.
5. Inside the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
⏱ 44 minFrom the Zeros that bombed Pearl Harbor to the rocket that could take humans to Mars, discover the secrets inside the Smithsonian Institution.
6. Inside the Chateau de Versailles, Paris
⏱ 44 minFrom the schemes of Marie Antoinette to the spectrum of a star that reveals the origin of human life, discover the secrets inside the Chateau of Versailles.
7. Inside the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
⏱ 44 minFrom the musket shot that killed Admiral Nelson to an anti-piracy commando raid, discover the secrets inside the National Maritime Museum.
8. Inside the Bardo Museum, Tunisia
⏱ 44 minFrom the real lives of gladiators to the connection between Star Wars and Tunisia, discover the secrets inside the Bardo Museum.
