My local science museum does these “for adults” nights and that’s pretty much what it is. No one under 21. Open from 20:00-02:00. You can bring your own bottle of wine (1pp). They bring in a couple new exhibits or change out the existing ones to be more adult. Usually this means advanced but sometimes it’s just a more adult topic. Just a quick bike ride through a few beautiful city parks on a trail and I’m there.
In Brussels they have a yearly event where the museums are open till 1am : https://www.museumnightfever.be/en/
I think this is a global event. Even back in my hometown of a small EU country they’d do “Night in a museum” event when you could attend museums after midnight.
Copenhagen as well. I would guess it is a phenomenon in many cities.
Same in Wien (Vienna)
same with berlin https://langenachtdermuseen.berlin/en/
incredibly common for big cities
Same thing in Zürich: https://langenacht-zuerich.ch/en
We have dozen different long night of x events in Berlin. I have only been to the science one, because I don’t think any painting can compete with standing next to a particle accelerator.
This is why I like Animal Ctossing: New Horizons - you can go to the museum any time!
Please trap my soul in it, so I can haunt it.
I just want my public library to stay open past 6pm. What are these hours??
The Library I used to go to in my small town had one of those connected library systems where you can get books from basically any library in the state.
So I started doing that. Except theyclosed at 5, and at the time, I got home at like, 4:45.
And the damn thing was always closed early because the librarian kept leaving early.
In Graz there is (sadly only once a year) the “lange Nacht der Museen” (long nights of the museums), where you can visit all the museums in the city and the universities usually have a little exhibition or experiments as well.
Always was pretty cool :-)
art or bugs
Animal Crossing mf spotted
Don’t be selfish, when are the paintings going to go to sleep?
You misunderstand; they sleep during the day. Nighttime is when they wake up.
I’d also love:
- somewhere healthy and fast to eat at night, like a rice bowl drive thru
- to be able to fly on a plane with no children
- to be able to enjoy a draft beer while I grocery shop
the last time i was at a museum after midnight it was on fire and collapsing…
With a bar and quality finger food
We don’t want drunk people with greasy fingers near the art, tho.
why not… if you have an exhibit that is mostly replicas, that could bring more people in to enjoy it, and will remove the “stigma” of being posh/snooty
