A 19th century crime that was ‘bigger than OJ’
On Museum Secrets: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which broadcasts tonight on History Television (Canada) at 8 PM ET/PT, a mysterious tale is told, of a young woman named Evelyn Nesbit, who was once thought to be the model for the nude sculpture which sat atop Madison Square Garden.
Watch our Director Commentary Video with Gary Lang to learn more about this murderous tale
Director explains what creative decisions went into making Museum Secrets at the Met
Prior to the broadcast of Museum Secrets: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art on History Television tonight at 10 PM ET/PT, read this interview with the director of the episode, Gary Lang, explaining how the motion control time-lapse video technique works and more.
Watch an assemblage of motion control time-lapse video clips from the Met episode
Things to do at the Met in New York
Upon return from his visit in Manhattan to attend the History Makers Conference, our Museum Secrets series producer Steve Gamester provided us with some information about some of the most interesting objects he found at the Met, when he was there earlier, scouting the museum for the development of Episode 6 of Museum Secrets: Inside the Met. Steve snapped some shots from his trip last year that we’ve included here too, along with his recommendations. Get ready for Museum Secrets: Inside the Met airing tomorrow on History Television (Canada) at 10 PM ET/PT.
Check out these Insider Tips from our series producer, Steve Gamester.
Museum Secrets rare objects unveiled at the ROM
I checked out the first weekend of the Museum Secrets exhibit at the ROM, which features objects from Museum Secrets: Inside the Royal Ontario Museum. Until February 27, six of the objects from the episode will be on public display, as part of the ROM’s Out of the Vaults series. Curators are also talking about the secret objects on a set schedule. I caught up with Associate Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology, David Evans (who is also in our show), to hear what he had to say about the special exhibit’s opening weekend.
Read the interview and view photos from the exhibit.
Museum Secrets director and an explosives engineer test secret weapons
On Museum Secrets: Inside the Natural History Museum, which broadcasts again tonight on History Television (Canada) at 8 PM ET/PT, Paul Kilback worked with an explosives engineer named Sidney Alford in London, in order to conduct a risky experiment. We asked the questions and found interesting answers. What top secret weapons were invented at the NHM? And how did one of these weapons come within a hair’s breadth of killing Adolph Hitler? These secrets are revealed when the show airs tonight (and tomorrow night at 7 PM ET/PT) on History Television. Find more about the story here.
Watch our director commentary video with Paul Kilback discussing this story.
Tips for navigating London’s Natural History Museum
Tonight on Museum Secrets: Inside the Natural History Museum, on History Television (Canada) at 10 PM ET/ PT, we take you to London’s museum that is a cathedral of nature, housing over 70 million specimens, and visited annually by more than 4 million people.
But how does a visitor start to navigate this huge museum?
Museum Secrets partners with the ROM for limited run exhibit
For a limited time only, objects featured on Museum Secrets: Inside the Royal Ontario Museum will be out of the vaults and on public display at a special exhibit at the ROM. ROM curators will talk about the artifacts as part of the ROM’s Out of the Vaults series, of which the Museum Secrets exhibit is a part.
When? Saturday, February 5 to Monday, February 27, 2011
Where? At the ROM in the Canada Court on the Museum’s Level 1.
A secret past revealed at the Natural History Museum in London
Prior to the broadcast of Museum Secrets: Inside the Natural History Museum tomorrow night at 10 PM ET/PT on History Television (Canada), find out what our research revealed about the museum’s curious past. To find out more about some of the objects in this episode, visit the NHM episode page.
