Museum Secrets

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Museum Secrets
Museum Secrets TV Program Title Screen.jpg
Title screen
GenreDocumentary history
Narrated by Colm Feore
Country of originCanada
Original languagesEnglish, French
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes22
Production
Executive producer Robert Lang
Running time44 minutes
Production company Kensington Communications, Inc.
Original release
Network History
ReleaseJanuary 6, 2011 (2011-01-06) 
May 2, 2014 (2014-05-02)

Museum Secrets is a TV series on History Television in Canada [1] and a website with videos and games exploring the world's renowned museums and their most enigmatic objects. Narrated by Canadian actor Colm Feore, the TV series ran for three seasons. Museum Secrets was produced by Kensington Communications Inc.

Contents

The show won two awards at the Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Best Factual Series and Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series [2]

The Royal Ontario Museum held a special exhibit during winter 2011, featuring objects from the Museum Secrets series. Several Canadian newspapers previewed the exhibit: National Post , [3] Toronto Sun , [4] Torontoist [5] and Toronto Star . [6]

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

Season 2 episodes

Season 3 episodes

Interactive

The program's website features shorter web videos for the 14 episodes and an object navigator with 90 objects. [7]

Awards and nominations

Canadian Screen Awards, 2014
History Makers Awards, 2012 (now IMPACT Awards)
26th Annual Gemini Awards, 2011
Interactive Rockie Awards at Banff World Media Festival, 2011

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References

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