Museum Men

2014
Museum Men

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Unearthing King Tut Nov 29, 2014

Creative Arts is tasked with one of their biggest builds to date: Help boost attendance at the St. Petersburg Museum of History by creating an all-new exhibit around the museum’s own Egyptian mummy, The Lady of the Nile. The Museum Men’s solution? King Tut.

EP2 Hunting Nazi Submarines Dec 06, 2014

Creative Arts is creating a full-scale midget submarine, the WWII German Seehund, for the Tampa Bay History Center. The team will also build a secret door bookcase for the VIP room at Ciro's Speakeasy.

EP3 Relaunching Apollo 13 Dec 13, 2014

The Museum of Science and Industry is looking to expand their space race exhibit, and they know just the team to help them do this: Creative Arts. The team agrees to build the iconic Apollo 13 lunar module, the hero craft from the perilous Apollo 13 mission. On top of the pressures of the space race exhibit, Creative Arts has taken on another, more sentimental project: a recreation of the William Wallace sword.

EP4 Yeager's Supersonic Jet Dec 20, 2014

Creative Arts is building the Bell X1 for the Armed Forces History Museum in Largo, Florida and a Pennsylvania Long Rifle for the Florida Frontiersmen, a local non-profit group that wants to present the firearm as a scholarship award to one of their young members.

EP5 Lincoln's Last Ride Dec 27, 2014

The Creative Arts team has just 17 days to build a full-scale replica of President Abraham Lincoln's Springfield funeral carriage, the same number of days that the city of Springfield had to make the original carriage for Lincoln. The team will also build a knight's suit of armor for a friend who plans to wear it in a Renaissance-era joust.

EP6 Evel Knievel's Rocket Jan 03, 2015

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. The team will also be building President Kennedy’s Resolute Desk for the retired mayor of Tampa.

EP7 Medieval Torture Devices Jan 10, 2015

Creative Arts has been commissioned by a Tennessee museum to build an exhibit focusing on items of torture from the Spanish Inquisition. The team also takes on a side project–a sidecar for a WW2 Russian motorcycle as part of the Wounded Warrior program.

EP8 First WWI Tank Jan 24, 2015

Creative Arts builds the Mark 1 tank for the Discovery Park of America, the most game-changing weapon to emerge from World War I. The team also takes on a side project, a telephone booth for a Florida hotel. This historical phone booth will house the hotel's prized possession: an actual 1930's era telephone!

EP9 The Levitating Throne Jan 31, 2015

Creative Arts is building a Byzantine hydraulic throne inspired by King Solomon for the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida. The team will also build a medieval crossbow for a “living historian” and archery enthusiast.

EP10 Resurrecting the Titanic Feb 07, 2015

Creative Arts has been hired to reinvent the grand staircase from the famous Titanic; They'll be creating it for the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
7.2| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 29 November 2014 Returning Series
Producted By: T Group Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.history.com/shows/museum-men
Synopsis

Whether it's the famous steps of the Titanic or the legendary lunar landing of Apollo 13, there is no museum exhibit that the expert builders at Creative Arts Unlimited, Inc. can't re-create. Viewers will follow these highly skilled craftsmen as they use their expertise to meticulously rebuild history in museums across the nation. Led by Roger Barganier (co-founder, president and creative director), the team at Creative Arts Unlimited, approach each build with a determination to tell a story. Every exhibit that is produced by the Museum Men is engaging, informative, and historically accurate. No detail is overlooked, because for Creative Arts authenticity is everything. In addition to building for museums, Creative Arts also re-creates items for private collections. But whoever the recipient may be, every build poses unique challenges, including hard-to-find research, demanding schedules, and obsolete methods of construction.

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harley50444 Being a model builder myself I was excited about this show. Well I waited patiently hoping it wouldn't be another screaming and hollering we got to get this done in a few days show with ridiculous deadlines. Saw the first episode and right off the bat, "we got 30 days to get this done" with a little arguing and drama. OK I can bear it. Just started watching the second episode and a few minutes in they said they only have 31 day to build this German sub. I can see where this is going. I'm still going to watch the series and maybe if I'm lucky I can peek in between the "reality" part and actually see how they make their models. Hopefully it won't get out of control. Time will tell.
bdl7431 Well, I am watching the premier episode of Museum Men - another "reality" series from the History Channel folks. Right now I am very disappointed.Why? At least in the first episode - it looks like they are focusing on the personalities and basically ignoring things like techniques and the piece parts of the creative process. It feels a lot like Storage Wars - not surprising since it is from the same production company. We see hard cuts and cliff hanging moments that break into commercials.I wish they would speak more to HOW they are building things - they show polystyrene foam - they don't talk about how they are forming it, painting it, making it LOOK good. I realize they have to make the show appeal to a large audience - but they could of at least said - We are drawing the image on the foam, we use hot wire and shaping tools to make it take the shape, we paint it with urethane based paint...nothing serious, but maybe they could of inspired someone to pick up some foam and tools and try to make something.To be fair - they do some nice educational bits in the show about the displays they are building. But it could be so much more.Overall - maybe it will get better - but I am not hopeful......UPDATE - I just watched a couple more episodes - my original opinion remains the same. It is mostly about personalities, and very little on technique.Also I am having a very hard time believing that all these museums have 30 day turnarounds for projects. I have spent a great deal of time working as either a volunteer or a professional in museums and I cannot conceive a situation where this happens. Either a bunch has incredibly poor planning or else something has been dramatized........