Lesson Plans and Educational Material

YMI Classroom's NatM Lesson Plan (Grades 4-6): A lesson plan made to promote the 2009 film. Includes activity sheets, bookmarks, and posters. [Download PDF]

Adventure Kit: An official set of activity sheets for parents, museums, youth groups, and schools meant to go with Secret of the Tomb. Originally available from the Fox website, but is now defunct. [Download PDF]

Printables: Printable activity sheets made to promote Secret of the Tomb. Archived in this PDF: [Download PDF]

Craft and Paper: A printable worksheet and dough craft Tablet made for a homeschool group in Georgia to promote the third film.

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T-Rex Trek National Tour

To celebrate the DVD release in 2007, a model of Rexy made a tour across the contiguous United States. It began on 17 April, and the DVD released on 24 April.

Images of the sendoff available on Getty Images.

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In-Store Flyers and Images

This is a collection of images sent to stores to promote sales of the DVDs and Blu-Rays.

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Backgrounds

Promotional photos and backgrounds released on the defunct NatM website.

Night at the Museum

An ad for the 2006 movie aired on 24 December 2006 on ABC. Starts at 1:30.

An ad for the 2006 movie's DVD release aired on 18 April 2007 on ABC during an episode of Lost. Has some lines that aren't in the final cut of the film. Starts at 11:38.

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Battle of the Smithsonian

"Boom! Boom! Firepower!"

Likely the most iconic of the ads for this franchise. Found version exists currently on the 2009 DVD for Bride Wars. Begins at 8:25, embedded version starts there.

Kraft Macaroni and Sweepstakes

Look, I put "shaped macaroni" on the Active Search page as a joke. I never expected there to ACTUALLY be a macaroni tie-in.
Multiple uploads are saved, but they are all the same commercial.

Caro Bernardini's work with the Instant Win sweepstakes, archived on their site.

Hershey's Kisses Commercial

Animated by The Asylum.

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Theatrical Trailers and Featurettes

Longer trailers meant to play before films. All backed up to the Internet Archive. Archived from FilmIsNow, has their outros. Features some voice lines that didn't make it into the final cut.

Cast 🔦 New Museum, New Trouble 🔦 Knight at the Museum 🔦 Monkey Diva 🔦 Improv

NBC Holiday 2014 Promos

A series of five 30-second ads made to air on NBC from November to December 2014. Filmed after Williams' death.

Moxie USA

To promote NatM 3, the B trailer was placed on sites like NBC and into two games: Poptropica and Roblox. It's called "Moxie USA" due to the URL and file names. The trailer includes some scenes that weren't used in the final cut, such as an extra line in the Pompeii scene, and Sacajawea participating in the planetarium riot. This was discovered in the files for the old NatM Site, only available on the Internet Archive. [Link]

Official Links

Facebook

Twitter

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Social Media Archives

General promos; and promos made for holidays like Valentine's and Thanksgiving, and special events like the Super Bowl. These get crossposted to multiple accounts, so they'll be archived to one page for brevity.

General Promotions🔦Holidays and Special Events

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museummovies Tumblr Blog

Wildly different from the other museummovies social media accounts, due to Tumblr's unique format and userbase.

We're currently working on fixing the archive. Check back soon!

Night at the Museum

Night at the Museum Press Kit

An assortment of footage meant for the press.

Available on the Internet Archive.

Screensaver

A screensaver released to promote the first film.

Available on the Internet Archive.

Best Buy Demo DVD

A demo disc to promote Best Buy's home theaters. A trailer for the 2006 film was included.

Available on the Internet Archive.

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Battle of the Smithsonian

Kahmunrah's Loot Pile

From May 4 to October 1 2009, the pile of loot Kahmunrah gathers was present in the Smithsonian to promote the film. The pile was replicas of actual Smithonian exhibits that were present in the film.

The exhibition, archived on the Smithsonian's website.

A picture of the exhibition taken on 1 July 2009 by Christina B. Castro.

Papermotion

In some magazines and newspapers, ads were printed with QR-style technology that could be scanned with one's webcam. For an article written about this subject, check the Articles page.

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Gala Screening

A pre-release screening for reviewers and film critics.

Source: KidzCoolIt

Content warning: One of the images on the source site has a non-Native American dressed in Native American regalia. Viewer discretion advised.

Regent Street Holiday Lights

Regent Street is a road in London, one of the first purpose-built shopping streets in the city. It's been the filming location of many a scene, and it's also a place known for film promos. With the premiere of NatM 3, the street was lit up with string lights and characters from the films walked around; available to take pictures with.

[Images will be backed up here.]

Source: KidzCoolIt

Union Square Character Meet-Up

For a week before the film's release, a group of performers played in character in Union Square. Photo album courtesy of Ray Reinson, who played Teddy. [IA Backup, did not save images] Lancelot was played by Paris Black, and Octavius was played by Jagger S. Gordon. Attila's performer is unknown.

Mrs. Fields Partnership

A promotion with the Mrs. Fields cookie company.

In-Game Promos

Two games from the NatM website were available on Poptropica: Knight Flight and Pompeii Escape. Both of these games are now lost. If you beat the games in Poptropica, you would win a card based on the games. This item is also lost, and only known to exist via the IDKonpop site.

These were also available in Roblox, but this is yet to be archived.

Smithsonian Sleepover Sweepstakes

A sweepstakes where the winner could stay in the Smithsonian for a night. Put on cereal boxes and candy.

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Secret of the Tomb Pre-Movie Giveaway/Sweepstakes

Full item list: A set of character magnets, a set of trading cards, a set of postcards, a tablet flashlight, an activity set with a novelty tin, a Dexter plush, a 4D Triceratops skeleton fossil, and a t-shirt.

Source: KidzCoolIt