Halloween Sleepover

Time

5pm, Friday 30 October - 10am, Saturday 31 October.

Price

£85 (+ booking fee) per person. Booking essential. 

Suitable for adults and children aged 6-12. 

For safeguarding every two children must be accompanied by at least one adult for the whole event. Everyone attending the event needs to book a separate ticket, all tickets are £85 (+ booking fee) per person.

Groups will be allocated a sleeping space on arrival at the museum so if you are planning to visit as a group please book under one name for all people in your party.

A unique opportunity to spend a night in your favourite museum.  

The evening will be full of exciting activities including creepy crafts, a terrifying trail, spooky story time, phantom forest school, dungeon disco and a delicious hot buffet beastly feast for teatime. 

Then it's time for stories and bedtime amongst the museum objects, dream of ancient worlds, deep sea adventures with a narwhal or swinging through the rainforest with a family of orangutangs.

After a night of museum slumber wake up to a relaxing morning planetarium show and a tasty hot breakfast buffet, juice and lots of coffee for the adults!

Depart from the museum by 10am.

Download our Sleepover Rules PDF (255 KB).

What is included:

• Dinner and breakfast buffet
• All activities
• A sleeping zone allocated on arrival

What you will need to bring:

• Sleeping mat (not an airbed)
• Sleeping bag
• A pillow
• A torch
• Toiletries
• Additional water.

Teatime buffet menu:

• Margherita pizza
• Vegan Margherita pizza
• Gluten Free Margherita pizza
• Pepperoni pizza
• Potato wedges with ketchup/mayonnaise
• Vegetable sticks
• Orange Juice
• Water.

Breakfast buffet menu:

• Sausage Sandwiches (Gluten Free bread available on request)
• Bacon sandwiches (Gluten Free bread available on request)
• Fruit
• Pastries
• Tea
• Coffee
• Orange juice
• Water.

Running order:

• 5pm: arrival at the museum, find sleeping spots and set up camp
• 5.30pm: activities start in designated activity spaces until 9pm
• 6pm - 7pm: tea served in Hall 2
• 10pm: Storytime
• 10.30pm - 11pm: getting ready for bed
• 11pm: Lights out
• 6.30pm: wake up and start packing up, Planetarium shows will run every half hour from 6.30am until 8.30am
• 7am: Breakfast buffet until 8am
• 9.30am: Packed up ready to leave
• 10am: Depart the museum.

Evening activities - choose from this list of optional activities:

• Lush bath product making 
• Mosstroopers roving storytelling 
• Forest School  
• Planetarium Show  
• Halloween trail 
• Fancy dress disco  
• Games 
• Craft activity  
• Colouring zone.