UK’s annual night-time festival of arts, culture and heritage

Museums at Night, the UK’s annual after-hours festival of arts, culture and heritage is back for 2016. Now in its eighth year, the festival will take place in May and in October. Dates for the 2016 festivals are May 11 – 14 and October 28-29 respectively.

The Museums at Night festival offers the chance to engage with history and culture in a unique and exciting way. During the festival, hundreds of museums, galleries and historic spaces all over the UK will open their doors after dark to put on an impressive and diverse array of special night-time events - gallery gigs, art happenings, twilight screenings, all-night sleepovers, nature walks, star gazing or simply to offer the chance to experience some ofthe UK’s cultural venues, historic houses and museums in a new light.

In London over 30 museums and galleries across the capital will be open late, from National Trust properties and major museums and galleries, to quirky spaces and hidden gems such as the London Museum of Water and Steam - Museums at Night offers the chance to discover museums on your doorstep that you didn’t even know existed.

London highlights include:

Museums at Night: Animated Minds at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London (May 12) - a screening of a selection of the award-winning series of short films, ‘Animated Minds’, aimed at addressing stereotypes around mental illness. Andy Glynne (TBC) director of Mosaic Films will be talking about the project, which has won over 20 Awards, including a Mental Health