Stories From the Vaults Stories From the Vaults

History · 2007 · 27 min Prime Video
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Every year millions of people visit Washington, D.C., and the Smithsonian Institution, which includes the National Air and Space Museum and the National Portrait Gallery among the sections of the multifaceted complex, but they don't see everything there is to see. In this series, actor Tom Cavanaugh takes viewers behind the scenes of the tourist attractions and into the private rooms, high-tech vaults and cutting-edge research labs that aren't part of the museums' regular tours. Cavanaugh reveals artifacts and rarely seen treasures that visitors miss. The show discusses each object's origin, how it is being preserved and studied, and what each thing might tell us.

History · 2007 · 27 min
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En vedette Tom Cavanagh

Season 1

  • ÉPISODE 1

    Famous Donors

    A look at some donations to the museum by famous people such as John Steinbeck, Teddy Roosevelt and Phyllis Diller.

    26 min · 4 sept. 2007
  • ÉPISODE 2

    Superlatives!

    Tom is on a mission: to discover what it means to be the best, the tiniest, the coldest, and the most misunderstood. He explores the art of taxidermy at the National Museum of Natural History, the music of a three-hundred-year-old Stradivarius at the National Museum of American History, and unique technology that scrunches the Bible onto one tiny microchip.

    26 min · 10 sept. 2007
  • ÉPISODE 3

    No Place Like Home

    An insider's look at the homes of various cultures and species and how they've differed throughout history.

    26 min · 18 sept. 2007
  • ÉPISODE 4

    Beauty

    Host Tom Cavanagh explores the many faces of beauty through the eyes of scientists. Three Smithsonian curators offer their surprising perspectives on the elusive meaning of true beauty as it applies to their work with advertising, orchids, and ants. Beauty isn’t just in the eye of the beholder.

    26 min · 25 sept. 2007
  • ÉPISODE 5

    Firsts

    Host Tom Cavanagh enters the vaults of the National Museum of American History and the National Air and Space Museum in search of earth-shattering firsts. From a new collection of vintage planes to the very first videogame (hint: it wasn’t Pong), Tom discovers what it takes to claim the title of Number One.

    26 min · 5 nov. 2007
  • ÉPISODE 6

    Life After Death

    Host Tom Cavanagh explores evidence of life after death. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of Natural History, and the National Postal Museum all hold clues to the afterlife deep inside their vaults.

    26 min · 13 nov. 2007

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Stories From the Vaults

History

Every year millions of people visit Washington, D.C., and the Smithsonian Institution, which includes the National Air and Space Museum and the National Portrait Gallery among the sections of the multifaceted complex, but they don't see everything there is to see. In this series, actor Tom Cavanaugh takes viewers behind the scenes of the tourist attractions and into the private rooms, high-tech vaults and cutting-edge research labs that aren't part of the museums' regular tours. Cavanaugh reveals artifacts and rarely seen treasures that visitors miss. The show discusses each object's origin, how it is being preserved and studied, and what each thing might tell us.

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COMMON SENSE

Poking around America's attic for lively historical tales.

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2007
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