Spend a night at the museum
with our ‘mythic sleepover’ for kids
Thursday 14 January at 6.30 pm
Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour
Find out what a night at a museum is really like and what creatures do come to life with the
National Maritime Museum’s Mythic Sleepover on Thursday 14 January.
Held in conjunction with the major new exhibition Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns and
Mermaids, the museum is inviting kids to come dressed as their favourite mythical creature and
enjoy a night full of myth, magic and mayhem.
The evening will begin at 6.30 pm with a magic and potions class led by the museum’s very own
wizard!
The children will then be taken on a torchlight tour and scavenger hunt of the Mythic Creatures
exhibition to see what really happens when the lights are off!
The evening will also include plenty of dragon-making arts and crafts, a drumming workshop and a
special screening of the Pixar animated hit Monsters Inc.
And later in the night, the children will roll-out their sleeping bags in one of the museum’s galleries
and sleep beneath the massive Tasman Light – the former lens for southern Tasmania’s Tasman
Island Lighthouse (no need to bring your own night-light!)
The Mythic Sleepover begins at 6.30 pm on Thursday 14 January and will end at 9.30 am the
following day. Tickets are $100 per person and include all activities, pizza dinner and BBQ
breakfast. Bookings essential.
The sleepover is recommended for children aged 5-12 years. All children must be accompanied by
an adult. For more information or to book contact the museum on (02) 9298 3644 or visit
Images available on request.
6 January 2010 Media information, Shirani Aththas (02) 9298 3642; 0418 448 690
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