Lucky Families to Spend a Night at a Museum.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- The greatest figures in world history, as well as nature's most impressive creatures, will come to life for an entire night for pajama-clad family "explorers," as part of special promotional events for the action-adventure-comedy NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM. Sleepover events are scheduled in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (Museum of Natural History), Los Angeles (Museum of Natural History), Chicago (Field Museum), Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm (Omniplex Museum), Salt Lake City (Salt Lake City Natural History Museum), Vancouver (Vancouver Museum), Calgary (Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology paleontology (pā'lēəntŏl`əjē) [Gr.,= study of early beings], science of the life of past geologic periods based on fossil remains. ) and Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum, commonly known as the ROM (rhyming with Tom), is a major museum for world culture and natural history in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ). NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM star Ben Stiller will appear at the New York event, leading over 300 guests through a special "Flashlight Tour." Activities will be tailored to each location, including Flashlight Tours and other interactive activities, plus screenings of the film and a special museum breakfast. Each sleepover participant will receive a NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM flashlight and blanket. In NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, Ben Stiller portrays a graveyard-shift security guard at a museum of natural history, where the exhibits come to life at nightOliterally. Mayans, Roman Gladiators gladiators [Lat.,=swordsmen], in ancient Rome, class of professional fighters, who performed for exhibition. Gladiatorial combats usually took place in amphitheaters. They probably were introduced from Etruria and originally were funeral games. , and cowboys emerge from their dioramas to wage epic battles; a Neanderthal burns down his own display in his quest for fire; Attila the Hun pillages his neighboring exhibits, and a T-Rex reminds everyone why he's history's fiercest predator. Amidst the chaos, the only person the guard can turn to for advice is a wax figure of President Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), who helps our hero harness the bedlam, stop a nefarious plot, and save the museum. The film opens everywhere December 22. |
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