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Let's Go to the Museum

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Genre
  
children's cultural

Original language(s)
  
English

Producer(s)
  
Marion Dunn

First episode date
  
5 October 1954

Network
  
CBC Television

Presented by
  
Robert MacNeil

Country of origin
  
Canada

No. of seasons
  
2

Location(s)
  
Ottawa

Final episode date
  
18 December 1956

Number of seasons
  
2

Cast
  
Robert MacNeil

Similar
  
PBS NewsHour, The Story of English, Washington Week, America at a Crossroads

Let's Go to the Museum was a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television from 1954 to 1956.

Contents

Premise

Robert MacNeil, later of the PBS NewsHour, hosted this series concerning museums and their artifacts. Episodes were based on location at a national museum in Ottawa.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast on Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. from 5 October 1954 to 5 April 1955 for its first season, then in the same time slot for its second season from 2 October to 18 December 1956. Features included demonstrations of how museum staff prepare models of First Nations people, and a location report at the Macoun Field Club.

References

Let's Go to the Museum Wikipedia