

Museum Secrets
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.
Cast
Colm Feore
Narrator
Seasons
Season One takes us inside the Louvre, the Vatican Museums, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, London’s Natural History Museum, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

E1Inside the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Jan 6, 2011
From a medieval hand-grenade to an extremely rare dinosaur, discover the secrets inside the Royal Ontario Museum.

E2Inside the Natural History Museum, London
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.

E3Inside the Louvre, Paris
Jan 20, 2011
From murdered kings to stolen masterpieces, discover the secrets inside the Louvre.

E4Inside the Vatican Museums, Rome
Jan 27, 2011
From Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes to the fall of the Knights Templar, discover the secrets inside the Vatican Museums.

E5Inside the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Feb 3, 2011
From the mystery of a Pharaoh's gold to the strange practice of animal mummification, discover the secrets inside the Egyptian Museum.

E6Inside the Metropolitan Museum, New York City
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.
Season Two takes us inside Athens’ Archaeological Museum, The State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, the American Museum of Natural History, the Imperial War Museum in London, the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, and Museum Island in Berlin.

E1Inside the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul
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.

E2Inside the American Museum of Natural History, New York City
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.

E3Inside the Imperial War Museum, London
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.

E4Inside the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
Feb 2, 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.

E5Inside the Pergamon and Neues Museums, Berlin
Feb 9, 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.

E6Inside the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Mar 1, 2012
From the alchemy of turning silver into gold to a dance craze that changed history, discover the secrets inside the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
E7Inside the National Archeological Museum of Athens
Mar 9, 2012
From a dodgy archeologist who discovers a golden mask to an ancient gadget that reveals the future, discover the secrets inside the National Archaeological Museum.
E8Inside the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Mar 22, 2012
From ancient mummies who sport tattoos to re-examining who really killed Rasputin, discover the secrets inside the State Hermitage Museum.
Season Three takes us inside the State Historical Museum in Moscow, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Palacio Real in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., London’s National Maritime Museum, the Chateau of Versailles and Tunisia’s Bardo Museum.

E1Inside the Palacio Real, Madrid
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.

E2Inside the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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.

E3Inside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Apr 4, 2013
From a famous artist who vanished to a traitorous Nazi who saved the day, discover the secrets inside the Uffizi Gallery.

E4Inside the State Historical Museum, Moscow
Mar 14, 2013
From the duel that killed a genius to Lenin’s Rolls-Royce, discover the secrets inside the State Historical Museum.

E5Inside the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
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.

E6Inside the Chateau de Versailles, Paris
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.

E7Inside the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Apr 18, 2013
From the musket shot that killed Admiral Nelson to an anti-piracy commando raid, discover the secrets inside the National Maritime Museum.
E8Inside the Bardo Museum, Tunisia
May 2, 2013
From the real lives of gladiators to the connection between Star Wars and Tunisia, discover the secrets inside the Bardo Museum.
Videos
Storyline
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.
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