My local science museum does these “for adults” nights and that’s pretty much what it is. No one under 21. Open from 20:00-02:00. You can bring your own bottle of wine (1pp). They bring in a couple new exhibits or change out the existing ones to be more adult. Usually this means advanced but sometimes it’s just a more adult topic. Just a quick bike ride through a few beautiful city parks on a trail and I’m there.
Museums, Coffee Shops, and Libraries.
The reason so many cities have 2 bars on every block is because THERES NOWHERE ELSE TO FUCKIN GO AT NIGHT.
I’m still pissed they closed everything at like 8pm after Covid and never changed it back. Being a nightowl sucks in this world.
Morning people are an oppressive class.
Now imagine being there kind of morning person who has to wait until things start opening before they can do anything.
Work starts at 6 but there are no kitchens open at 5…
Ain’t no bread up on the table
Ain’t no butter in the pan
But you better not complaaain boooy
You get in trouble with the manLet the midnight special shine a light on me…
Same. There used to be an all night cafe by one of the colleges near me. It was one of those “hidden gem” places for night owls. I had only just discovered it shortly before Covid hit, which closed it down for good. Damn it.
Man, I keep going back to my own small town in this thread.
There was one single screen theater, it would show movies at 7 so out around 9:30-10, I don’t think itnwas even every day.
A coffee shop opened next door. But they were not open late. Like dudes… be open when the movies let out! Its like an hour, 3 nights a week.
An hour of some activity probably doesn’t cut the hours of non-activity before and if it’s a small coffee shop, likely worked by owner and one or two employees.
Would you give up an hour 3 times a week for so little? Time is money.
When I drove a taxi, the last full month I did included driving a blind kid to a sport he had a few times a week. It was usually around 19-20 (7-8pm). But preceding it I had no fares for like two hours, and the one fare before was driving him there. And before that usually no fares. So I’d wake up in the morning at like 5.30, get ready and start driving kids to school. I’d be mostly finished around 3. And then I’d have the rest of the day off. But, I had trouble saying “no” to employers when asked for things. So when they asked whether I’d drive the kid at 16.30 and then back at 19.30, I pretty much always did. But that made it so my 6-15 day became 6-20.15 or so. And it increased my pay by maybe 15€. That ended up in a breakdown not many weeks after.
So I’m just saying I understand your view that they might have a good sale or two when the movies let out. But if the shop has to keep an employee, it’s prolly not profitable, and the owner probably can’t be arsed for the little profit he’d get for spending several more hours just waiting.
Yeah, a good kitchen has to be cleaned and maintained before and after use.
I’m asleep at night.
This is why I like Animal Ctossing: New Horizons - you can go to the museum any time!
Please trap my soul in it, so I can haunt it.
In Brussels they have a yearly event where the museums are open till 1am : https://www.museumnightfever.be/en/
I think this is a global event. Even back in my hometown of a small EU country they’d do “Night in a museum” event when you could attend museums after midnight.
Copenhagen as well. I would guess it is a phenomenon in many cities.
Same thing in Zürich: https://langenacht-zuerich.ch/en
Same in Wien (Vienna)
same with berlin https://langenachtdermuseen.berlin/en/
incredibly common for big cities
We have dozen different long night of x events in Berlin. I have only been to the science one, because I don’t think any painting can compete with standing next to a particle accelerator.
I just want my public library to stay open past 6pm. What are these hours??
The Library I used to go to in my small town had one of those connected library systems where you can get books from basically any library in the state.
So I started doing that. Except theyclosed at 5, and at the time, I got home at like, 4:45.
And the damn thing was always closed early because the librarian kept leaving early.
In Graz there is (sadly only once a year) the “lange Nacht der Museen” (long nights of the museums), where you can visit all the museums in the city and the universities usually have a little exhibition or experiments as well.
Always was pretty cool :-)
I’d also love:
- somewhere healthy and fast to eat at night, like a rice bowl drive thru
- to be able to fly on a plane with no children
- to be able to enjoy a draft beer while I grocery shop
art or bugs
Animal Crossing mf spotted
Don’t be selfish, when are the paintings going to go to sleep?
You misunderstand; they sleep during the day. Nighttime is when they wake up.
the last time i was at a museum after midnight it was on fire and collapsing…
With a bar and quality finger food
We don’t want drunk people with greasy fingers near the art, tho.
why not… if you have an exhibit that is mostly replicas, that could bring more people in to enjoy it, and will remove the “stigma” of being posh/snooty
