Museums at Night

Culture24 co-ordinates Museums at Night, the annual festival encouraging new audiences to discover culture and heritage venues on their doorstep in a different light.

Read an independent evaluation of the 2011 campaign.

Download the Executive Summary.

Download the full Evaluation Report.

Museums at Night 2012 takes place over the weekend of Friday May 18 to Sunday May 20. All UK cultural and heritage venues are warmly invited to run evening events over this weekend and to register them on our DDE database, to take advantage of the publicity benefits of being part of this huge UK-wide festival.

The campaign has grown rapidly since we took it over in 2009 largely because of our partnership working. In the past we have teamed up with Future Shorts to offer venues short film activity packages, the Faber Archive to offer compelling competitions, and Sky Arts to make a Museums at Night documentary and subsidise museum sleepovers.

Find out more about the campaign in our Museums at Night section on our arts and heritage guide Culture24.org.uk .

This year for the first time, Culture24 as a part of the Museums at Night Campaign is kicking off an exciting new competition called Connect10. Connect10 offers the chance for UK arts and heritage venues to win one of ten adventurous contemporary artists and a share of £7000 for a Museums at Night event. For more information on this project please check out this blog post or the article hosted on the main Culture24 site.

If you’re interested in sponsoring the campaign or working in partnership, please contact Nick Stockman at nick@culture24.org.uk or on 01273 623279.

If you have any questions about participating, please contact Rosie Clarke at rosie@culture24.org.uk or on 01273 623336.

 ”Nick and Rosie have been brilliant. You know if you do a Museums at Night event they will do their best to promote it. Museums at Night is the best of all the national initiatives because the team works so hard.”

 Laura Crossley, Sheringham Museum