Readers with an evening spare this weekend would do well to visit one of the 300 museums and galleries participating in this year’s Museums at Night scheme, an annual UK-wide celebration of all things cultural.
Introduced after the success of the Paris-conceived Nuit européenne des musées — now in its sixth year — the UK scheme will run from 14 to 16 May and includes tours, talks and workshop events at heritage sites throughout the country.
London highlights include a screening of Alfred Hitchcock films at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a curator-led tour of the London Transport Museum and a class on stitching at the the Royal College of Surgeons’ Hunterian Museum, taught by practising surgeons.
Elsewhere, the Eden Project in Cornwall will host a night of sound installation, storytelling and musical performance inside its artificial biomes. In Norwich, a torchlit tour of the cathedral will take place, and a “silent disco” (dancing with headphones on) will be held at Tate Liverpool.
A full listing of events can be found on the culture24 website.
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