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.
22 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
2011
Rating
5.0/10
2 votes • HD
People
Episodes
Episode 1 • Jan 06, 2011
From a medieval hand-grenade to an extremely rare dinosaur, discover the secrets inside the Royal Ontario Museum.
Episode 2 • Jan 13, 2011
From Darwin's original specimens to a lost workshop that inspired James Bond, discover the secrets of Britain's Natural History Museum.
Episode 3 • Jan 20, 2011
From murdered kings to stolen masterpieces, discover the secrets inside the Louvre.
Episode 4 • Jan 27, 2011
From Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes to the fall of the Knights Templar, discover the secrets inside the Vatican Museums.
Episode 5 • Feb 03, 2011
From the mystery of a Pharaoh's gold to the strange practice of animal mummification, discover the secrets inside the Egyptian Museum.
Episode 6 • Feb 10, 2011
From the mystery of a king's madness to a silver chalice some think is the Holy Grail, discover the secrets inside the Metropolitan Museum.
Episode 1 • Jan 12, 2012
From 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.
Episode 2 • Jan 19, 2012
From 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.
Episode 3 • Jan 26, 2012
From Churchill risking his life in the Blitz to 21st Century soldiers who become invisible, discover the secrets inside the Imperial War Museum.
Episode 4 • Feb 02, 2012
From 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.
Episode 5 • Feb 09, 2012
From Vikings who break unbreakable swords to curators who solve the world's hardest jigsaw puzzle, discover the secrets inside the Pergamon and Neues Museums.
Episode 6 • Mar 01, 2012
From the alchemy of turning silver into gold to a dance craze that changed history, discover the secrets inside the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Episode 1 • Mar 28, 2013
From a clock that runs on witchcraft to a 21st Century king who outfoxes a fascist, discover the secrets inside the Palacio Real.
Episode 2 • Mar 21, 2013
From 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.
Episode 3 • Apr 04, 2013
From a famous artist who vanished to a traitorous Nazi who saved the day, discover the secrets inside the Uffizi Gallery.
Episode 4 • Mar 14, 2013
From the duel that killed a genius to Lenin’s Rolls-Royce, discover the secrets inside the State Historical Museum.
Episode 5 • Apr 11, 2013
From the Zeros that bombed Pearl Harbor to the rocket that could take humans to Mars, discover the secrets inside the Smithsonian Institution.
Episode 6 • Apr 25, 2013
From 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.
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