Places including BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, the Shipley Art Gallery, Northern Print, alt.gallery and The Mushroom Works will all be free to anyone who wants to join in Museums at Night, which is part of a Europe-wide event ('Nuit des Musees').
Interactive events will include a gin workshop where you can taste for yourself the history of gin from Hogarth to the modern G and T. Romance can be found at the Laing Art Gallery where a live art and film installation can record couples’ romantic clinches in amazing old-fashioned Technicolour.
More sober and chilled-out moments will be on offer at the Hatton Gallery with their retro-electro drawing fun in the Etch-a-Sketch Lounge. The drawing theme continues with their Masterpiece Pictionary event.
It’s hard to separate culture and sport in Newcastle and Newcastle United are opening their ground and offering a rare opportunity for fans to take a tour of the pitch.
As well as free entry to all events, a free bus service will be running between the venues so people can visit as many places and exhibitions as possible during the evening.
More information about the growing number of venues still signing up for this mammoth cultural Saturday night can be found at the Late Shows website.
The project is being funded by the North East Regional Museums Hub as part of the Renaissance programme.
