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Museums at Night - Saturday: Ten Museums at Night taster events for tonight

We're into the third and final night of Culture24's annual Museums at Night Festival - so here's our final ten taster events to whet your appetite for Saturday May 18.

Art

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Museums at Night Report: Liverpool's citywide spree of late night culture - Light Night

Ben Miller reports from Liverpool where the city's Light Night reveals how a festival can really galvanise a citywide spree of imaginative after-hours culture.

History & Heritage

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Museums at Night Report: An audience with Queen Victoria at Leighton House

Those Victorians knew how to party... Ruth Hazard has a brush with Queen Victoria during an immersive Museums at Night at Lord Leighton's opulent gaff, Leighton House.

Science & Nature

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Museums at Night Report: Bat walking through the scented woodlands at Hatchlands Park

For Museums at Night Amy Strike heads through the bluebell-scented woodlands of Hatchalnds Park for a bat walk in search of Barbastelles and Pipistrelles...

Spliced

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Museums at Night 2013: Paupers and performance inside Southwell's Workhouse

Costumed drama will be at its most atmospheric in the 19th century Workhouse at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, where actors are waiting to tell stories within former schoolrooms, bedrooms, dormitories and kitchens.

Teachers

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Culture Street: Introducing a new creative website for kids that supports the Arts Award

Culture Street Content Director Keith Alexander introduces his new project designed to connect teachers and pupils with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and performers.

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