A night at the museum for grown-ups

There is a specific hill in Argentina where several young dinosaurs died centuries apart. Millions of years later, I am looking at the 122-foot remains of one of them in the middle of the night.

The skeleton cast of the largest dinosaur ever discovered spans an entire room in the American Museum of Natural History, the head poking out one door and the tail out the other. In the dark, with only the bones illuminated, the scale is truly striking.

Such moments are a perk of what I told everyone was an “adult sleepover” and what the AMNH more carefully named its Sleepovers for Grown-ups. The $350 tickets are pricey, but includes dinner, complete access, tours, two shows, and getting to sleep under a gigantic blue whale. It’s also 21-plus,…

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