So many hour long academic panels and is incredible for research and getting to know the faces of the art marker.

A New York Times article this year drew attention to the Prado’s surprise-hit Instagram films, in which curators, visitor assistants, conservators and other museum staff are shot informally in the galleries as they explore major works on the museum’s walls. Miguel Falomir Faus, the Prado’s director, spoke movingly about the museum continuing to operate this year even while its doors were closed, before delivering a hugely entertaining look at Tintoretto’s epic The Washing of the Feet (1548-49). Its YouTube channel is full of delights and also has subtitles, unlike the Instagram feed: a whole section is dedicated to conservation, for instance, with Elisa Mora—an Instagram star—restoring Goya’s Winter (1786) among the highlights. There’s also a series of films about works in the collection for children.

The Met’s broadcast output matches its collections for its variety. It produces excellent films marking its exhibitions and projects, such as this year's short documentary focusing on the Cree artist Kent Monkman’s paintings for the Great Hall—Monkman appears in the film as Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, his gender-fluid alter ego, absorbing the historic collections he revisits in his work. The Met also makes great use of its archives in its From the Vaults series. What could be better for YouTube than Metropolitan Cats, 1983—A History of Cats at The Met, in which curators nearly 40 years ago explore the feline figures in Met paintings alongside footage of marvellous moggies? That the Met’s film is relatively little shared on social media until now is a mystery.

The esteemed Danish museum, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, punches hugely above its weight on its broadcast channel, going far beyond art and consistently featuring leading writers, musicians and architects. Louisiana does deep dives particularly well: a documentary about Ulay and Marina Abramović is exemplary, and a series of films in which artists including David Salle and Tal R discuss the influence of the painter Marsden Hartley reflects the incisiveness artists can bring to understanding the work of their forebears.