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.

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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?

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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.

It turns out that the museum was not always reserved for earth and science specimens.

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A History of Cannibalism

In our upcoming episode Museum Secrets: Inside the Natural History Museum we discover Britain’s past and consider whether ice age human bones excavated from a cave in Somerset England are evidence of cannibalism.

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