Museums at Night

You can experience Dickens’s beautiful townhouse after hours with decorations, magicians and fortune tellers galore...

Tour of the building

Surrounded by weird and fantastical organisms and robotic devices, Robbie Thomson’s live lab experiments are transformed into reactive projections.

Professor Sir Simon Wessely charts the evolution of military psychiatry, reviewing psychological disorders suffered by servicemen and women from 1900 to the present.

Guided tour of the Martin Puryear exhibition led by artist Veronica Ryan who will discuss Puryear's extraordinary abstract sculptures and works on paper.

Cast light on a dark history! See Bram Stoker's inspiration in a new light as Whitby Abbey is bathed in dramatic illuminations.

Explore the dungeons, discover the intriguing story of the licking stones and hear about the walled up skeletons which were discovered by workmen in the Captain's Tower.

Join us on an eerie evening after-hours, meet our spine-tingling storytellers and discover tales of ghostly apparitions, dastardly deeds, and ghoulish goings-on.

Prepare for a spooktacular evening of street performers, fire-jugglers, magicians and treats!

Come along and create a fantastic Mechanical Bubble Machine with artist Martin Smith!

Free family drop-in workshop: expect creepy-crawlies galore and even creepier food to get you in the mood for Hallowe’en.

Hail thee, history enthusiasts! Join us at the home of the Knights Hospitaller for a quiz to test your medieval knowledge...

Join us for an exciting screen printing workshop with local artist Nicole Line inspired by the suffrage movement 100 years ago...

Join us for a guided tour of the Martin Puryear exhibition at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art.

Join us for an exclusive after hours tour of Abington Park Museum, especially for children!

Once again we are giving over a museum building to the community to run for a night!

Don't go Into the Cellar perform classic spine-tinglers from the Golden Age of Horror, giving them a new lease of blood in this original stage chiller...

Explore William Morris's Icelandic obsession with poet Lavinia Greenlaw and singer Ösp Eldjárn.

A spooky, immersive Hallowe'en adventure for all the family. Join us to find out what happens when monsters escape from their books!

For one night only, you can stay at Franklin's Hotel. NN will be hosting a slumber party as part of Museums At Night.

A dance and film projection tour of Stevenage Museum.

An evening of short films made by current students from the University of Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art.

Discover the hidden history behind the shady practice of providing cadavers to anatomists during the Middle Ages up to the birth of the Industrial Revolution.

A free performance by Don’t Go in to the Cellar Theatre Company. Taking place during October half term and 'Museums At Night', this show is sure to get you in the mood for Halloween.

Museum late and lecture on the power and value of emotional connections in branding. Hear insights from the John Lewis Christmas ads and explore the 10 rules of effective advertising...

Explore the delights and wonders that Venice has to offer at this evening celebrating Venetian culture...

Denmark’s Between Music present an otherworldly, underwater spectacular with five musicians submerged in vast tanks of water that glow in the darkened space...

Join us for a top secret mission!

Visit the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum after hours, and experience the fantastic atmosphere of a Museum at night...

A family evening to experience the Museum at night, with plenty of activities to help the children explore the Museum in the twilight...

Enjoy a rare evening visit to the Bank of England Museum as part of the Museums at Night festival, with special events taking place throughout the night.

Get behind the scenes at Craven Museum, discover the team's favourite objects, and enjoy a leisurely private view of the current exhibition with a glass of wine.

A Silent Disco, immerse yourself amongst Hetain Patel’s large scale projection work while enjoying music beamed directly into your ears...

Join us for A Cabaret Of Pestilence, a multi-disciplinary showcase event, the culmination of our Heritage Lottery Funded project, Soutra: Surgery & Superstition.

Join us as we celebrate the diversity of the college with an unusual pop-up art installation designed to challenge and disrupt the traditional look and feel of our College Hall.

Book a one off, immersive dining experience at the Museum of Brands on 27th October, where guest will be eating an especially designed 1980s menu surrounded by the Museum great collection...

Take part in a dragon hunt through the dark or dimly lit galleries of the museum.

Late Night Spooktacular – Day of the Dead

Phoenix Brighton is partnering with HOUSE Biennial and Outside In to present newly commissioned work by Anthony Stevens (Brighton) and Andrew Omoding (London).