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A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc.
Visit the American Museum of Natural History to see the real exhibits behind your favorite characters in the "Night at the Museum" movies. For more, take the "Night at the Museum" self-guided tour on your next visit. Find out which of your favorite movie characters are on display at the Museum.
See the real exhibits behind the characters featured in the Night at the Museum movies on this self-guided tour.
What happens during a real-life night at the museum in New York. BEN Stiller is nowhere to be found, but check out what happens during a Night at the Museum sleepover at a New York icon.
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- Personnel
- Real-Life Museum
- Filming
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New York, United States
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Night at the Museum (Series)
Website
www.amnh.org
The Museum of Natural History was dedicated to the 26th president of the United States of America, Theodore Roosevelt Jr.. Roosevelt "absolutely loved history and believed the more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future". An equestrian statue of Roosevelt was eventually built just in front of the museum's entrance, and a wax statue of him was made in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie, New York that would be displayed near the entrance inside the museum along with a replica of his horse Little Texas.
In the mid-1880s, the Nile Expedition mission led to the discovery of the mummified Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ahkmenrah and his tablet. For a time, Ahkmenrah's remains (and presumably the tablet as well) were kept on display in the Egyptology Department of the University of Cambridge in England.
In 1952, both Ahkmenrah and his tablet were moved to the Museum of Natural History. The night this occurred, the tablet's magic brought everything within the museum to life, and every night since. For the subsequent 54 years, the revived Ahkmenrah's was kept locked in his sarcophagus, and struggled in vain to free himself every night.
Over those subsequent 54 years, three men came to work together at the museum as fellow night guards: Cecil Fredericks, Gus, and Reginald. During their career, they figured out ways to deal with the living exhibits and their individual antics, and constructed an annotated manual to provide both helpful advice and a guideline to keep the museum under control. However, despite surviving many years at the museum and learning how the exhibits ticked, they lacked the intuition or the interest to understand the exhibits and get them to calm down, which necessitated many of them being locked up every night and perpetuating their trouble-making.
As the three grew older, they came to realize that the tablet's magic enlivened them as much as the exhibits, making them feel young and healthy during the nights. Presumably, in order to maintain the tablet's secrecy, they were the ones to reject any new night guard applications for some time.
At some point, Dr. Leslie McPhee and Rebecca Hutman are hired as the museum director and a docent respectively.
•Dr. McPhee (Museum director)
•Rebecca Hutman (docent)
•Rose (archive worker)
•Night guards
•Cecil Fredericks (former)
•Reginald (former)
The museum complex comprises of 27 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. The museum collections contain over 32 million specimens of plants, humans, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any...
The interior scenes were that are seen in the films were shot at a sound stage in Vancouver, British Columbia, but exterior shots of the museum's façade were done at the actual Museum of Natural History.
One of the most notable consequences of the film is the 20% increase in the number of visitors to the real museum after the film's release. In part, this helped the film crew get the Smithsonian clearance for second Night at the Museum.
Based on our wildly successful family sleepover, the grown ups-only version is a more sophisticated take on the overnight experience. You'll start the evening with a champagne reception and live music. After that you're invited to roam the nearly empty halls of the Museum, take in Worlds Beyond Earth at the Planetarium, see a nature film , and ...
It tells the story of a divorced father who applies for a job as a night watchman at New York City's American Museum of Natural History and subsequently discovers that the exhibits, animated by the tablet of Akhmenrah, a magical Egyptian artifact, come to life at night.
