Museums at Night

[3] For Museums at Night weekend 2009, cultural and heritage venues in the UK staged 157 events, attracting over 34,000 visitors.

[4] There were combined cultural and heritage programmes offered by multiple organisations in many United Kingdom towns and cities, including Stockport,[5] Bath,[6] Dorchester,[7] Norwich,[8] Liverpool[9] and NewcastleGateshead.

[10] The largest single programme within the festival was that organised in Newcastle Gateshead, covering over 50 venues under the title The Late Shows.

competition between museums and other cultural hosting institutions engaged artists to produce art for the festival weekend.

[12] One of the artists who participated in Museums at Night during May 2013 through The Late Shows was Julia Vogl, who created a chandelier with the help of members of the public, using 2500 recycled plastic bottles.