On Museum Men, you’ll meet the talented craftsmen at Creative Arts who produce historically precise displays for museums, exhibits, businesses and towns. From the Oval Office to Cleopatra’s tomb, no detail is overlooked.
EPISODE 2
Hunting Nazi Submarines
Creative Arts is creating a full-scale midget submarine, the WWII German Seehund, for the Tampa Bay History Center. This life-sized sub will help visitors understand the extreme conditions the Nazis endured, both inside cramped quarters and above water at war. It will also showcase the weaponry that threatened America's Greatest Generation. This will be one of Creative Art's most complicated builds to date as the team must figure out how to best display the inside of the Seehund while still maintaining the iconic submarine silhouette. The team will also build a secret door bookcase for the VIP room at Ciro's Speakeasy. Their design must match Ciro's unique 1920s ambiance, but also function smoothly as a door.
EPISODE 3
Relaunching Apollo 13
The Museum of Science and Industry looks to expand its space race exhibit, hiring the creative arts team to re-create the iconic Apollo 13 and build a heat shield for the museum's existing Mercury capsule.
EPISODE 4
Yeager's Supersonic Jet
American pilot Chuck Yeager flew this experimental rocket plane in an effort to break the sound barrier; this record-setting flight was the envy of the world as numerous countries attempted to build a plane fast enough to break the speed of sound.
EPISODE 5
Lincoln's Last Ride
Creative Arts has been commissioned by the Sarasota Classic Car Museum to build a full-scale replica of President Abraham Lincoln's Springfield funeral carriage. This not only has to look authentic with all of the Victorian details, but it actually has to work and be pulled by a team of horses, just like Lincoln's carriage was. Roger and his team will have just 17 days to make it, the same number of days that the city of Springfield had to make its carriage for Lincoln. Creative Arts will also build a knight's suit of armor for Nate's close friend who is hoping to wear the suit in a Renaissance-era joust. Nate and Daryl visit a master armor maker and learn the way suits of armor were made 400 years ago.
EPISODE 6
Evel Knievel's Rocket
Creative Arts has been commissioned by the Tennessee Museum of Aviation--home to one of the best historical aircraft collections in the country--to build the Skycycle X-2, the rocket used by Evel Knievel in his most famous daredevil stunt. Knievel used the Skycycle to attempt an 1,800 foot jump across Idaho's Snake River Canyon. Creative Arts will bring this flying machine to life, focusing on the streamlined fuselage and minimalist cockpit, the fighter plane-inspired nose and tail, and the signature paint scheme that matched Evel's flashy personality. The team will also be building President Kennedy's Resolute Desk for the retired mayor of Tampa.
EPISODE 7
Medieval Torture Devices
Creative Arts has been commissioned by a Tennessee museum to build an exhibit focusing on items of torture from the Spanish Inquisition. This spine-tingling exhibit will include a life-sized bronze bull, complete with built-in door and hollow interior. Creative Arts will also build a rack and a breaking wheel to help tell this gruesome tale. The team also takes on a side project--a sidecar for a WW2 Russian motorcycle. As part of the Wounded Warrior program, the vintage bike and sidecar will be presented to a disabled veteran from the Marine Corps.
Roger Barganier
Daryl Mosher
Brian Meere
Michael Stiller
Jenny Daly
Rob Lobl
Bill Rademaekers