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Here, four more museums across the country that invite parents and kids to spend the night.
Pitch tents, or just unroll sleeping bags, near dioramas of man-eating lions, listen to stories in front of the largest and most complete T. Rex ever found, and wander among the mummies in the darkened ancient Egypt exhibition—if you dare.
1400 S. Lake Shore Dr.; 312/922-9410; fieldmuseum.org; $47 per person; children 6–12; overnights held once or twice a month.
At the Great Lakes Adventure camp-in, you can climb aboard a 1920’s steamship docked on Lake Erie (right outside the museum’s back door), test water quality, and examine lake organisms under a microscope.
601 Erieside Ave.; 216/621-2400; glsc.org; $39 per person; children 6 and up; overnights held three times a year.
Take on new identities, memorize secret codes, hunt for a mole, and interrogate real spies.
800 F St. NW; 202/393-7798; spymuseum.org; $115 per person; children 9–15; overnights held twice a year.
Bunk aboard the U.S.S. Blueback, the 1960’s U.S. Navy submarine that starred in the movie The Hunt for Red October. As you peer through a periscope and learn to fill ballast tanks and fire torpedoes, you’ll also get a taste of what it was like to have been a crew member living on the ship for months at a stretch.
1945 SE Water Ave.; 800/955-6674; omsi.edu; $55 per person; children grades 3 and up; overnights held every Friday and Saturday throughout the school year.
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