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Museum Secrets (2010 – 2014)

22 HOUR-LONG EPISODES

This Gemini and Canadian Screen Award-winning series explores compelling stories behind the artifacts in 22 of the world’s greatest museums.

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Museum Secrets Vol 1

Museum Secrets Vol 2

Museum Secrets Vol 3

Museum Secrets has aired on networks in over 70 countries around the world, including History (Canada), Global, Yesterday Channel (UK), BBC Knowledge, ZDF and as Museum Secrets Revealed on the Smithsonian Channel (USA).

SYNOPSIS

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.

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.

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.

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.

INTERACTIVE WEBSITE

Museum Secrets was supported by an interactive website (online from 2010 to 2018) that further explored the stories behind museum treasures through web-exclusive videos and online games.

CREDITS FOR MUSEUM SECRETS

Executive Producer
ROBERT LANG

Series Producers
MARIANNE KUSHMANIUK
STEVE GAMESTER

Episode Producer
BILL ROBERTSON

Creative Producer
ALLEN BOOTH

Supervising Producers
TARA JAN
KIRSTEN SCOLLIE

Writers
ALLEN BOOTH
HUGH HARDY

Narrator
COLM FEORE

Directors
MARY ANNE ALTON
PETER FINDLAY
LARA FITZGERALD
PAUL KILBACK
VICTOR KUSHMANIUK
GARY LANG
ROBERT LANG
DAVID LANGER
DAVID NEW
REBECCA SNOW
KENTON VAUGHAN
Directors of Photography
MARK CASWELL
CHRIS ROMEIKE

2nd Unit Camera
IRIS NG

Editors
CHRIS CASSINO
GRAEME BALL
JENNIFER ESSEX-CHEW
GREG HOPEN
GREG WEST
ROBERT SWARTZ
ENZO ANILE
CATHY GULKIN

Music Composers
ERIC CADESKY
NICK DYER

Sound Recordists
MARGUS JUKKUM
SCOTT CHAPPEL
SEAN FELDSTEIN
STEVIE DRANITSARIS
AO LOO

Production Manager
KIM DE SIMONE
KIM CREELMAN

Post Supervisor
CATHERINE COPELIN

Research
SEANN GALLAGHER
LARA FITZGERALD
VICTOR KUSHMANIUK
JOANNE LOTON
BEN TUCKER

Visual Research
ANITA TURCOTTE
MAGGIE MCCAW

Produced by KENSINGTON COMMUNICATIONS in association with HISTORY TV, HISTORIA TV, UKTV, and BBC Worldwide, with the financial participation of the CANADIAN TELEVISION FUND, ROGERS CABLE NETWORK FUND and ROGERS TELEFUND

CREDITS FOR MUSEUM SECRETS WEBSITE

Executive Producer
ROBERT LANG

Interactive Producers
IRENE VANDERTOP
DAVID OPPENHEIM

Supervising Producer
TARA JAN

Writer
ALLEN BOOTH

Creative Director / Designer
ERIC LIPHARDT

Project Manager
VENICIA WOOD

Producers, Web Video
MARIANNE KUSHMANIUK
BILL ROBERTSON
STEPHEN MILTON

Narrator
COLM FEORE

Editors, Web Video
GRAEME BALL
CHRIS CASSINO
JENNIFER ESSEX-CHEW
GREG HOPEN
NEIL CAVALIER
GREG WEST
CATHY GULKIN
CALVIN GRANT

Directors, Original Footage
MARY ANNE ALTON
PETER FINDLAY
LARA FITZGERALD
PAUL KILBACK
VICTOR KUSHMANIUK
GARY LANG
ROBERT LANG
DAVID LANGER
DAVID NEW
REBECCA SNOW
KENTON VAUGHAN

Director of Photography
MARK CASWELL
CHRIS ROMEIKE

Music Composed by
ERIC CADESKY & NICK DYER

Flash Programming
JONATHAN COE
GRAY BARTON

Web Application Programming
MIKE LINKOVICH
HTML Programming
ANDREY TABACHNIK

3D Animation
MARCIN POREBSKI
MARK AZVEDO

Additional Graphic Designers
IRENE VANDERTOP
STEVEN BALABAN

Sound Mixer
MARK MATUSOFF

Post Production Supervisor
DAVID METH
CATHERINE COPELIN

Post Production Coordinator
SHAWN GERRARD

Researchers
SEANN GALLAGHER
LARA FITZGERALD
VICTOR KUSHMANIUK
JOANNE LOTON
BEN TUCKER

Visual Researchers
ANITA TURCOTTE
MAGGIE MCCAW

Additional Editing
BAUN MAUH

Assistant Editor
JOSEF BEEBY

Social Media Manager, Blogger
AMANDA CONNON-UNDA

Social Media Coordinator
SANDRA SADOWSKI

Production Assistant
MICHELLE GROVES

Stills Photography
IRIS NG
JEREMY BERNATCHEZ
SCOTT BURTON
CHRIS LOGAN
ADAM MAKARENKO
JASON VIEIRA
ANDJE BOROJEVIC

Graphic Novel Animation
OPTIX DIGITAL PICTURES

Project Consultant
RICHARD LACHMAN

Production Accounting
MICHELE DAVIS

Legal Affairs
DANIEL WEBBER

Accounting
KAY & WARBURTON CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

Museum Secrets Interactive Season 1 and Season 2 were produced by Kensington Communications in association with History Television, with the participation of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund.