Italy, London and Paris Bound!
It’s very busy at the Museum Secrets production office here in Toronto!
We have a film crew poised for departure to Italy this weekend to shoot an upcoming episode at the Uffizi Gallery for Season 3.
Then, next week our Series Producer, Versailles episode Director and our Executive Producer head out to London and Paris to scout more museums for the upcoming season.
Find out which museums we’re filming at and scouting next week!
Museum Secrets Screening at Friday Night Live @ROM
“Drinks. DJs. Dinos. History just got hot.” - That’s the new tagline for The Royal Ontario Museum’s new event series: Friday Night Live at the ROM.
Premiere Broadcast Air Dates for Season 2 in the UK!
The Yesterday Channel on UKTV in England will be airing Museum Secrets Season 2 for the first time this summer.
Starting on June 22, 2012, Yesterday will broadcast Museum Secrets on Fridays at 9 PM for 8 weeks.
Check out the broadcast schedule below.
Season 3 Gets Green-Light!
After a second hit season on History Television Canada, Kensington Communications Inc. has begun prep work for another batch of Museum Secrets shows, to roll out early in 2013. Our terrific production team is back, many of the same people from last year, digging up more secrets ‘dark and strange’.
Photos from the #MuseumSecrets Viewing Party
On March 1st we hosted several dozen bloggers in Toronto to watch Museum Secrets: Inside the Pergamon and Neues Museums, Berlin. Guests were treated to a Viking sword fight demonstration to wet their appetites for the upcoming episode, and then played trivia to test their knowledge of the show.
As viewers watched on History Television, they tweeted. The event caused quite a stir, with viewers and event guests generating hundreds of tweets with the #MuseumSecrets hashtag - A testament to our growing online community.
Discover More About Our 8 New Episodes
The countdown is on for the official launch of Museum Secrets Season 2 on History Television Canada! The new episodes start broadcasting Thursdays at 10 PM, on January 12, 2012.
Take a sneak peek at what’s to come
Filming at Museum Island in Berlin wraps
We’ve just returned from our shoot in Berlin at Museum Island, a complex of five internationally significant museums (Altes, Neues, Alte Nationalgalerie, Bode, and Pergamon) in the lively centre of the city.
American Museum of Natural History takes us back in time
Having recently returned from New York City, the team has wrapped 6 of 8 shoots for Museum Secrets - Season 2, on History Television. This time we went to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) – The museum that was featured in the 2006 movie Night at the Museum, staring Ben Stiller.
London’s Imperial War Museum on Season 2
For our fifth shoot for our upcoming season on History Television Canada, we went to London’s multi-branch Imperial War Museum to discover some unknown stories of war. Luckily for us, we had a little help from a few people who lived through various wars, and we discovered some artifacts that reveal what war is really like.
Season 2 at Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology
We recently returned from Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology where we shot an episode for the upcoming season. The director of the episode, Rebecca Snow and Executive Producer, Robert Lang, were able to explore Mexico’s history, from the first millennium to the Spanish conquest in 1521. As Rebecca Snow said, “Mexico was a powerhouse of incredible civilizations, so we had a lot of history to choose from.”
