''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 collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. ...

" (London, United Kingdom) * "Inside the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

" (Paris, France) * "Inside the

Vatican Museums The Vatican Museums ( it, Musei Vaticani; la, Musea Vaticana) 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 ...

" (Rome, Italy) * "Inside the

Egyptian Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum or the Cairo Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display a ...

" (Cairo, Egypt) * "Inside the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

" (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. It is the list of ...

" (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: * Topkapı Palace, a museum in Istanbul, Turkey * Topkapı Scroll, a Timurid dynasty pattern scroll in the museum's collection * Topka ...

" (Istanbul, Turkey) *"Inside the

National Archaeological Museum of Athens The National Archaeological Museum ( el, Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο) in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It is ...

" (Athens, Greece) * "Inside the

American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 inter ...

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

Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...

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

National Museum of Anthropology The National Museum of Anthropology ( es, Museo Nacional de Antropología, MNA) is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street withi ...

" (Mexico City, Mexico) * "Inside the

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

and

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

s" (Berlin, Germany) * "Inside the

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

" (Vienna, Austria)

Season 3 episodes

* "Inside the

Palacio Real de Madrid The Royal Palace of Madrid ( es, Palacio Real de 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 ...

" (Madrid, Spain) * "Inside the

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

" (Jerusalem, Israel) * "Inside the

Uffizi Gallery The Uffizi Gallery (; it, Galleria degli Uffizi, italic=no, ) is a prominent art museum located 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 ...

" (Florence, Italy) * "Inside the

State Historical Museum The State Historical Museum ( Russian: Государственный исторический музей, ''Gosudarstvenny istoricheskiy muzyey'') of Russia is a museum of Russian history The history of Russia begins with the histories of ...

" (Moscow, Russia) * "Inside the

Smithsonian Institute The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...

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

Château de Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, u ...

" (Versailles, France) * "Inside the

Royal Museums Greenwich Royal Museums Greenwich is an organisation comprising four museums in Greenwich, east London, illustrated below. The Royal Museums Greenwich Foundation is a Private Limited Company by guarantee without share capital use of 'Limited' exemption, co ...

" (London, United Kingdom) * "Inside the

Bardo National Museum Bardo National Museum or Musée National du Bardo may refer to: * Bardo National Museum (Algiers) in Algeria * Bardo National Museum (Tunis) , logo = , image = Tunis, musée du Bardo, salle de Virgile 01.jpg , caption = Apartments of the Be ...

" (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