Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll find out about the return of real-life nights at the museum and those depicted in the movies that starred Ben Stiller. We’ll also get details on why Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor, says he would apologize for saying in 2020 that the New York Police Department was racist and homophobic.
When the movie “Night at the Museum” was released in 2006, the American Museum of Natural History began its own nights at the museum — sleepover nights for children and their parents.
The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton did not spring to life and scamper from gallery to gallery, as in the movie. The Theodore Roosevelt statue did not ride off with Sacagawea. And Ahkmenrah? He was not a real pharaoh. The movie’s writers made him up, along with the golden tablet that aroused the dinosaurs and dioramas.
The museum discontinued the sleepover nights when the pandemic hit in 2020. But now it is reviving them, starting on Oct. 24.
Sean Decatur, the president of the museum, said not to expect Hollywood-worthy chaos this time around.
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