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Inside the Kunshistorisches Museum, Vienna
Title
Inside the Kunshistorisches Museum, Vienna [electronic resource (video)] / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], c2012
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
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Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 06, 2014.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is a treasury of antiquities and weaponry collected by the royal family known as the Habsburgs - a dynasty that ruled much of Europe for 500 years. In this episode, we visit the crypt that entombs many generations of the Habsburg royal family, then meet a geneticist who is attempting to discover how inbreeding led to their demise. We go hunting with falcons to discover how one Habsburg emperor's hobby laid the foundation for modern science, then recreate the alchemical experiment that led another emperor to believe that silver could be transmuted into gold. While learning the proper way to do the Viennese waltz, we discover how a dance craze impacted European history, then recreate a strange piece of ancient armor to find out how and why it was designed to explode. And finally, we meet a detective who takes us on the trail of a thief who stole the museum's most valuable treasure.
Variant and related titles
Kunshistorisches Museum, Vienna
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2012.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Museum Secrets (Series 2)
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
8 & up.
Contents
Hapsburgs (0:42)
Maximillian's Armor (1:42)
Jousting Tournaments (1:14)
Breastplate (2:00)
Testing Armor Recreation (2:50)
Saliera Theft (2:17)
Case Drags On (1:24)
Stringing Authorities Along (2:02)
Saliera Thief's Downfall (2:11)
Silver Into Gold (2:02)
Alchemy (4:21)
Medieval Falconry (2:37)
Frederick II Bonds with Arabs (2:16)
Transmitting Arab Scientific Method (1:21)
Austria and Dancing (1:46)
Waltz (1:27)
Austria Teaches the Waltz (3:01)
Hapsburg Family Pride (1:47)
Hapsburg Genetic Defects (3:21)
Credits: Inside the Kunshistorisches Museum, Vienna: Museum Secrets (Series 2) (1:05)
Videorecording number
57616s Infobase
57620 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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