Tomorrow marks the official start of the annual Museums at Night event where, unsurprisingly, a lot of museums are open in the evening.

(although one venue seems to be starting tonight!)

Many museums do actually have some sort of late-opening event most months anyway, but the Museums at Night is a nationwide event where they lay on a bit more than the usual just staying open for a few extra hours.

My personal pick – more for the rarity of visiting it – would be the Bank of England museum, which is normally only open Mon-Fri and therefore damn difficult for the average working adult to visit. It also happens to be a rather good museum.

The Government Art Collection is a good one to look at as well as it is also usually only open for specially arranged tours or Open House events, so you can get a chance to see how the Ambassadors and Ministers choose to decorate their offices – and why we spend money on such things at all.

That one is now fully booked – sorry.

Finally, if you like old dusty museums, then the Gothic Egypt event in the Petrie museum will satisfy you as it is a wonderfully unfussy museum that is resolutely aimed at people more interested in old things than in modern computer screens and plastic buttons.