We all loved sleepovers as a child and now the big kid in all of us can get the chance to stay the night in a space launchpad, become a midnight Chinese warrior, or hunt for dinosaurs by torchlight…

Get your rucksack packed and make sure there’s some batteries in your torch, as some of the best museums in the world are opening their doors late-night to children and their lucky adult guests!

Accompany up to five children (at £45 per head) for free to Dino Snores at the National History Museum in London and you’ll help to solve clues by torchlight and under the microscope before falling asleep under the 150-million-year-old Diplodocus.

Go on a flashlight fossil exploration at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, (pictured) before camping down next to polar bears, beneath a 65-million-year-old T-rex and a 94ft long blue whale! Pretty steep at £53 per person, but it’s a once in a lifetime experience.

Take part in one of the four annual British Museum sleepovers in London with up to four children (£27.50 each and one child must be a Young Friends member) to witness temporary and permanent exhibitions come to life before nodding off in the Egyptian and Mesopotamian Galleries.

The Science Museum sleepovers, which have been going in Central London since the 90s, take on a monthly theme such as dress-up Harry Potter night, and include a ‘make and take’ workshop, a science show and an eye-boggling IMAX film. If you’re still wanting more after your cornflakes, you can explore Space before you go home. One adult can take up to five children (£35 per person).

And for those who want a little more glitz and glamour to their sleepover, head for the National Media Museum in Bradford for an evening spent watching an IMAX film and on your very own film star treasure trail, all of which is filmed and screened in the cinema! From £25 per person.

Let us know if you go!