Great Museums

Great Museums is a documentary series that takes viewers on a unique tour of America's finest museums, introducing the people that are responsible for the success of these lauded and invaluable institutions as well as the surrounding cities that embrace and support these cultural landmarks. This informative series covers a wide range of locales and museum types, presenting intriguing biographies of each museum, it's proprietors, and the role the museum plays in its home town. Some of the museums covered in this series are popular and well-known, like New York City's world-renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art, which houses one of the greatest collections of fine art both classic and contemporary in the world. Other episodes introduce audiences to lesser-known but nonetheless valuable institutions such as Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, or the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Great Museums is a revealing and entertaining series that's perfect for museum lovers interested in learning the history behind the major museums as well as getting to know some truly spectacular smaller collections. MORE