The acclaimed Quebec historic mystery series Musee Eden has picked up a prize at France’s annual Festival de la Fiction TV (festival of televised fiction) in La Rochelle.

The drama, which aired this spring on Radio-Canada Television, is set in 1910 Montreal and follows two sisters from Manitoba, played by Laurence Leboeuf and Mariloup Wolfe. The pair arrive in Montreal and take-over the Musée Eden, a museum dedicated to showcasing wax figures from the world of crime, after their uncle is killed. (There really was such a museum in Montreal from 1891 to 1940, housed in the basement of the Monument national.) They soon get caught up in the real local crime scene.

The series, produced by Sovimage and written by Gilles Desjardins and directed by Alain DesRochers received a Prize for “artistic and technical merit,” and was the only Canadian program honored at the festival.

The series has received 18 Gemeaux nominations and also picked up the Rockie Award for Francophone drama at the 31st Banff International Television festival. Musee Eden has been sold to France, Switzerland, Belgium, Monaco, Madagascar and Comores.