博物馆被视为城市的象征，其收藏展示着各民族的文化身份。这些世界知名的博物馆不断地适应社会变迁。每一年，成千上万的参观者排着长队，为了一睹悬挂于展廊墙上的珍宝。在这部八集的系列纪录片中，我们将与这些宛如生命体般的博物馆相遇，它们有诸多的故事亦面临着诸多挑战。与艺术家及艺术爱好者薇薇安·魏斯伍德、玛莉娜·阿布拉莫维奇、奥拉维尔·埃利亚松、沃尔夫冈·乔普一起，观众将欣赏到一部分世界上最有感染力的大师作品，并感受这些博物馆是如何的生机勃勃。

这里是著名艺术家夫妇杨·史云梅耶和他已故的妻子伊娃的家，一座位于捷克霍尼斯塔科夫的超现实主义宫殿内。在这里，令人叹为观止的绘画、素描、雕塑、版画、物品和材料摆满了一个又一个房间，但这并不是一个向公众开放的博物馆。史云梅耶说过，这是他最后一部作品。

《博物馆》讲述的故事发生在1985年，一群罪犯为了嘲笑墨西哥人类学博物馆的安全指数，而去盗窃博物馆中的140多件前西班牙的文物。尽管电影取材于1985年发生的真实事件，电影与原始事件本身一样让人吃惊，它以精细的手法接近真相，又在每一个转折处进行重塑，并借鉴了多种电影类型 。

《博物馆》讲述的故事发生在1985年，一群罪犯为了嘲笑墨西哥人类学博物馆的安全指数，而去盗窃博物馆中的140多件前西班牙的文物。尽管电影取材于1985年发生的真实事件，电影与原始事件本身一样让人吃惊，它以精细的手法接近真相，又在每一个转折处进行重塑，并借鉴了多种电影类型 。

《博物馆》讲述的故事发生在1985年，一群罪犯为了嘲笑墨西哥人类学博物馆的安全指数，而去盗窃博物馆中的140多件前西班牙的文物。尽管电影取材于1985年发生的真实事件，电影与原始事件本身一样让人吃惊，它以精细的手法接近真相，又在每一个转折处进行重塑，并借鉴了多种电影类型 。

多姆是一家濒临倒闭的咖啡馆的咖啡师，他得到了一份意想不到的工作。这个提议来自一个咖啡馆的常客，Khatha，他点的咖啡他从来不喝。这份工作是在日落后才开门的一家奇怪的博物馆。几乎没有选择，多姆接受了卡沙的提议。第一天，一名员工告诉他博物馆闹鬼。被监督者禁止进入16区，多姆在里面受到诱惑。Khatha试图控制伤害，但是Dome无意中唤醒了一些东西，里面的几乎所有东西都设法溜走了。多姆承担起责任，并与卡沙一起，试图找到丢失的东西，以便让它们回到属于它们的地方。 　　Dome, a barista at a café on the verge of closure, receives an unexpected job offer. The offer comes from a café regular, Khatha, who orders coffee he never drinks. The job is at an odd museum open only after sunset. With few choices, Dome accepts Khatha's offer. 　　On his first day, an employee tells him the museum is haunted. Forbidden by the overseer from entering Zone 16, Dome is tempted inside. Khatha attempts to contain the damage, but Dome has unintentionally awakened things and nearly everything inside manages to slip out. Dome takes responsibility and, with Khatha, attempts to hunt down what went missing in order to return them to where they belong.

主持人吉米·多尔蒂走进英国自然历史博物馆的幕后，与博物馆工作人员进行近距离交流，探索该馆浩瀚藏品的秘密。 　　博物馆幕后是如何运作的？为何要保存7000万余件标本？馆中科学家们的研究工作，与当今世界有何关联？他们为保护生物多样性、防止热带传染病，又做出了何种贡献？ 　　共六集： 　　1. Museum in a Modern World.现代世界的博物馆 　　2. Digging up the Past. 挖掘过去 　　3. All Creatures Great and Small. 生物无巨细 　　4. Discovery. 发现无限 　　5. The Power of Insects. 昆虫力量 　　6. A Collection for the Future. 未来收藏

The Phantom Museum was originally commissioned by the Wellcome Trust as a video installation for the British Museum exhibition Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome, which ran from June to November 2003. This provided an opportunity for the public to examine some of the rarer items in the extraordinary collection of American-born pharmaceutical pioneer Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936), who assembled over 125,000 medical artifacts, many of which are currently stored in London's Science Museum and normally viewable by appointment only. 　　Typically, the Quay Brothers' film consists more of a series of impressions of the Wellcome collection than a guided tour, their approach summed up by its subtitle 'Random Forays into Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection'. A linking device (shot on grainy black-and-white Super 8 stock) involves a man clad in a black suit and white gloves ascending staircases, warlking along corridors, switching on lights and investigating rooms full of cabinets bearing tantalising labels ('Shrunken Heads - Scalp'). 　　Interspersed with these are much sharper colour sequences, depicting various objects in Wellcome's collection. Sometimes they're displayed as static museum pieces, sometimes rotated, and occasionally animated. Many of the exhibits are explicitly sexualised, from the diagram demonstrating the use of a chastity belt (next to an example of the real thing) to tender Oriental sculptures of human lovemaking. Many of the collection's many dolls come apart to reveal their anatomically-correct innards - one female body has a baby in her walnut-sized womb, connected via an umbilical piece of string. 　　Prosthetic arms and legs abound, in one case attached to a live human body, while there are plenty of dead ones glimpsed in the collection's storerooms, their lipless mouths fixed in a permanent grin. If the film is often unsettling, this is less because of the Quays' proven feel for the uncanny than for the way the Wellcome collection itself inescapably exploits our most fundamental fears: of birth, sex, mutilation and death. 　　The Quays originally edited the film to pre-existing recordings of the music of Czech composer Zdenek Liska (previously featured in The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer in 1984), but were unable to clear the necessary rights. In the final version, filmmaker-musician Gary Tarn provided a plangent semi-electronic accompaniment, occasionally interspersed with sound effects, notably in the shot of an old birthing chair and forceps being pressed into service on an invisible mother-to-be, whose baby can be heard crying as it emerges.

Don Wildman unearths relics from the world's greatest institutions to reveal secrets from the past. He examines each artifact to illuminate history's most incredible triumphs, sensational crimes and bizarre encounters.

《博物馆之城》是北京卫视推出的文博探秘类文化互动真人秀，由单霁翔、李杰、冯琳组成博物馆探秘团。该节目由单霁翔等三人组成博物馆探秘团，走进北京市各类博物馆，挖掘博物馆内文物所蕴含的历史价值、文化价值及时代价值。