{"id":3433,"date":"2016-08-25T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2016-08-25T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T23:01:09","slug":"a-night-at-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3433","title":{"rendered":"A night at the museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this at the time <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dalelane\/status\/764169695108956160\">on twitter<\/a>, and then went off on holiday. Now we\u2019re back, I thought it\u2019s worth sharing a little more.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">sorted out where we&#39;ll be sleeping tonight&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WKbFjHjXKF\">pic.twitter.com\/WKbFjHjXKF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dale Lane (@dalelane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dalelane\/status\/764169695108956160\">August 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I took Grace and Faith to the Natural History Museum in London, and we had a sleepover! It&#8217;s something they do for kids aged 7-11, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/visit\/exhibitions\/dino-snores.html\">Dino Snores for Kids<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It starts early in the evening, with a series of activities around the Museum. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to know what it&#8217;s like to be in a Museum full of kids doing a treasure hunt trail around a museum in the dark with torches, I&#8217;ve got a video that might help.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/guLN0szXaHI?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/guLN0szXaHI\">Video 1<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to win any prizes for camera work, but in my defence it was dark and I couldn&#8217;t really see where I was going \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a few videos like this but you get the general idea. It was loud and fun and exciting. The kids loved it. <\/p>\n<p>Actually&#8230; one more video &#8211; just because <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LgUU_iBVtNk?t=32s\">Grace walking into a wall at 00:32<\/a> in this one makes me laugh. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LgUU_iBVtNk?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LgUU_iBVtNk\">Video 2<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>This particular activity was in the Dinosaur hall. The best bit was probably when we turned a corner to find a roaring animatronic T-Rex. We didn&#8217;t know that was coming. And in the dark, it makes quite an impact. <\/p>\n<p>Grace jumped out of her skin. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/81QgqaL_w8U?t=22s\">Faith laughed her head off<\/a>. (Faith is a strange child). <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/81QgqaL_w8U?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/81QgqaL_w8U\">Video 3<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t all running around in the dark though. <\/p>\n<p>For example, they got to decorate T-shirts as part of learning about how paleontologists work out what dinosaurs looked like. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dalelane\/28610847213\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"DSC06315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/9\/8268\/28610847213_0c91b6c7e0.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" alt=\"DSC06315\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see more detail about the activities on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/visit\/exhibitions\/dino-snores.html\">the Museum website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It all came to an end around midnight, and we went back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/visit\/galleries-and-museum-map\/hintze-hall.html\">Hintze Hall<\/a> to get ready for our sleepover.  <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dalelane\/28943630470\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"DSC06297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8285\/28943630470_615404c82b.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" alt=\"DSC06297\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They did turn the lights off, but I don&#8217;t have any photos from then. I think I was as tired as the kids!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dalelane\/29197686886\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"DSC06288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8423\/29197686886_e4a6abbfc1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" alt=\"DSC06288\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(That&#8217;s a shame actually&#8230; Hintze Hall looks amazing in the dark)<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, after a little breakfast and some much-needed coffee, we were free to explore the rest of the Museum &#8211; so we got to see some of the other bits of the museum not included in the evening activities. <\/p>\n<p>We had a great night, and I hope it&#8217;s an evening that Grace and Faith won&#8217;t forget for a while!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dalelane\/28943775100\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"DSC06345\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8115\/28943775100_040b60832d.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"330\" alt=\"DSC06345\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this at the time on twitter, and then went off on holiday. Now we\u2019re back, I thought it\u2019s worth sharing a little more. sorted out where we&#39;ll be sleeping tonight&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/WKbFjHjXKF &mdash; Dale Lane (@dalelane) August 12, 2016 I took Grace and Faith to the Natural History Museum in London, and we had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}