The Secret Museum

> "To the secret museum!"
>
> -Xavier Riddle

**The Secret Museum** is a hidden place underneath the museum where Xavier, Yadina, and Brad can solve their problem.

It is the eponymous location mentioned in the title of the series, and it is the means by which Xavier, Yadina and Brad travel backward in time to meet historical figures during their childhoods.

They appear to think of it like a sentient entity. Like, for example in I Am Harry Houdini, Xavier mentions "I wonder who the Secret Museum will send us to meet", indicating it makes the choice based upon what lessons they need to learn.

This is especially apparent in I Am Harriet Tubman where Xavier says "that's who the secret museum wants us to meet" when the museum abducted the children on its own without their usual prompting.

In every episode, it presents the kids with an artifact from a historical hero, and sends them back in time to meet the hero with the help of Berby.

## Habitat

Xavier and Yadina's parents own and operate the museum atop the secret one. Xavier and Yadina live there. In I Am Mary Shelley, Brad mentions that they live there. In I Am Charles Dickens, Yadina's room is shown, and the kids head to the Secret Museum from there. In I Am Neil Armstrong, the kitchen is shown. In I Am Marie Owens, Xavier calls it "our family museum".

## Entrances

The kids access the Secret Museum through unconventional means in every episode. See Secret Museum Entrances for more information.

They don't enter the Secret Museum in I Am Susan B. Anthony, I Am Kate Warne, and **I Am Fred Rogers** because they're already there.

In Xavier Riddle and the Secret Movie: I Am Madam President, Xavier, Yadina, and Brad enter an Egyptian tomb, then a plane, the dinosaurs and the other painting as a portal.

## Features

* pole.
* question mark landing
* cubbies containing artifacts, including various items from pop culture such as:
	+ Dorothy Gale's ruby slippers from *The Wizard of Oz*
	+ Journal 3 from *Gravity Falls*
	+ Barbasol shaving cream from *Jurassic Park*
	+ A PKE meter from *Ghostbusters*
	+ Ariel's dinglehopper (fork) from *The Little Mermaid*
	+ Homer Simpson's donut from *The Simpsons*
	+ Jason Voorhees' mask from *Friday the 13th*
	+ Ron Weasley's broken wand from *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*
	+ A bust of Jim Henson with Kermit the Frog from *The Muppets*
* holographic display
* portals through time and space

## Heroes Met and Their Artifacts

* Johann Sebastian Bach: sheet music
* Marie Curie: chemist glass
* Mary Shelley: feather pen
* Harry Houdini: key
* Helen Keller: braille book
* Alexander Graham Bell: paper
* Florence Nightingale:lantern
* George Washington Carver: flower
* Leonardo da Vinci: journal
* Amelia Earhart: pilot cap
* Isaac Newton: windmill
* Golda Meir: poster
* Winston Churchill: bowtie
* Cleopatra: coin
* Catherine the Great: crown
* Tomioka Tessai: paintbrush
* George Washington: hat
* Susan B. Anthony: shawl
* Zora Neale Hurston: cornshuck doll
* Charles Dickens: inkwell
* Wright Brothers: toy helicopter
* Bronte Sisters: three books
* Mark Twain: paintbrush
* Abigail Adams: blue ribbon
* Julia Child: spoon
* Neil Armstrong: space helmet
* Jackie Robinson: baseball
* Anna Pavlova:ballet shoes
* Mary Leakey: archeology brush
* Alexander Hamilton: bronze coin
* Theodore Roosevelt: hat
* Eleanor Roosevelt:microphone
* Lou Gehrig: baseball glove
* Marie Owens: police badge
* Nikola Tesla: light bulb
* Nellie Bly:travel bag
* Maya Angelou: book
* Frederick Douglass: chalk
* Louis Pasteur: bottle
* Rachel Carson: book about the sea
* Kate Warne: detective badge
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: detective hat
* Cesar Chavez: grape crate
* Dolores Huerta: baton
* Confucius: shoulder pole
* Sacagawea: stick
* Mary Anning: fossil
* Charlie Chaplin: cane
* Billie Jean King: tennis racquet
* Arthur Ashe: tennis racquet
* Rosa Parks: bus
* Thurgood Marshall: gavel
* Harriet Tubman: bonnet
* Wilma Rudolph: gold medals
* Jonas Salk: test tubes
* Jesse Owens: shoes
* Ella Fitzgerald: record
* James Naismith: peach basket
* Temple Grandin: kite
* Albert Einstein: compass
* Carol Burnett: hat
* Abraham Lincoln: top hat
* Jane Jacobs: dollhouse
* Edmund Hillary: ice axe
* Celia Cruz: claves
* Rukmini Devi: bells
* Bob Ross: palette
* Ibn Battuta: map
* Beulah Louise Henry: ice cream machine
* Jigonsaseh: scarf
* Fred Rogers: sweater
* Michelangelo: hammer
* Dorothy Levitt: mirror
* Bessie Coleman: toy airplane
* King Sejong the Great: brush
* Eugenie Clark: divers mask
* Benjamin Banneker: clock
* Ruth Bader Ginsburg: collar necklace
* Grandmaster Flash: turntable
* Mary Seacole: doll
* Hedy Lamarr: music box
* Archimedes: toy boat
* James Braidwood: fire helmet
* Queen Liliuokalani: butterfly pin
* Alvin Ailey: poster
* Lucy Maude Montgomery: straw hat
* Zelia Nuttall: codex
* Jules Léotard: leotard
* Louis Braille: book with braille
* Zaha Hadid: building

## References

1. ↑ 7 December 2019 tweet "Hi MJ, great question! The museum is owned & operated by Xavier & Yadina’s family, so they basically have the run of the place & are the only ones who know about the secret museum within. We are checking with the creative team about whether the kids live there - will let you know"