#118 Smithsonian Sleepovers, Since 2008, Night At The Museum

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🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Smithsonian Sleepovers, Since 2008, Night At The Museum

FLASH NEWS:

I’ve received so many emails from you all about the Smithsonian content and how much you enjoy it. Smithsonian is thrilled, too, and is giving you an exclusive offer.

“Please know that I’m not doing this for payment. The entire discount is passed along to you by generosity of Smithsonian Associates. Smithsonian Associates is offering a special discount to Not Old Better listeners. To save $20 on a ticket, call 202-633-3030 and use promo code 232100. The offer is valid on ticket orders (including Smithsonian Sleepovers!) through August 31.”

Smithsonian Sleepovers, yes, that's right! Sleepovers at the Smithsonian Museums. Kids and their grown-up companions can attend a Smithsonian Sleepover. The American History Museum, Natural History Museum, or the Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center.

Smithsonian Associates presents customized nighttime experiences for groups and families with children ages 8–14 in sleepover events at the National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of American History and the National Portrait Gallery. Kids and their chaperones can choose their adventure, whether it is sleeping beneath a 50-foot whale, spending the night at the home of the Star-Spangled Banner or among portraits of people who have shaped the nation. They will experience the museums in a whole new way during a night of fun that features tours, games, crafts and more.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody Paul Vogel Singh here and before we start today with our excellent interview I wanted to give all my not old better audience a heads up about a generous discount offer from Smithsonian Associates.
0:13.6	Please check out details at the end of the show.
0:15.7	Thanks everybody.
0:16.4	Enjoy.
0:17.4	Welcome to the Not All Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vogel-Zang. A night of adventure awaits you as you enter the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Portrait Gallery, Udvar-Hasey Center
0:36.8	at Dulles, American History Museum, and a special postal museum activity.
0:43.0	This fall, we are not doing a sleepover by definition because it's a little difficult to sleep over there,
0:50.0	but we're going to have the same kind of experience and we're going to develop it at the Postal Museum.
0:55.2	And this will be a family kind of all ages kind of thing. So if grandparents are looking to bring
1:01.3	their kids of all ages.
1:03.7	There'll be different tracks that they can go on to experience the museum and all that it has to offer.
1:09.3	Really focusing on art and storytelling and kind of the idea of the postal system itself.
1:16.7	So there's going to be a great game that we're going to have throughout the whole thing
1:19.4	about delivering mail and so it's a lot of fun.
1:22.0	That was our guest today, Brigitte Blichere, who's the program manager for Smithsonian
1:26.6	Associates and the director of the Smithsonian Sleepovers program. What is the Smithsonian Sleepovers program you ask?
1:35.0	Well, just as the doors are closing, the lights dim, and the crowds shuffle out.
1:41.0	The wonders of the museum's halls are yours to explore. This of course
1:47.9	is patterned after the night at the museum movies and you get to actually stay the night at the museum at one of the
1:57.1	Smithsonian museums you get to go on an interactive exploration of the museum. There are wonderful hands-on craft projects
2:06.6	you get to participate in, IMAX movies you get to view, then you roll out your
2:11.5	sleeping bag and you get to dream away in the darkened halls of one of the world's most famous museums.
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