While moviegoers continue to line up for Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum sequel, local families can now experience their own overnight adventure, as the American Museum of Natural History, 81st Street and Central Park West, will hold its special sleepover program on select evenings throughout the summer.

Upcoming dates on the schedule include Friday, July 10; Saturday, July 25; Friday, Aug. 7; and Friday, Aug. 21.

This unique after-hours event, which begins at 5:45 p.m. and runs through 9 a.m. the next morning, features an IMAX film screening, an evening snack and light breakfast, a spooky flashlight fossil exploration and several other interactive activities. Guests will sleep either in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, under the 94-foot-long blue whale; next to the Alaskan Brown Bears in the Hall of North American Mammals; or at the base of a volcanic formation in the Hall of Planet Earth.

This program is open to children ages 8 to 12 and chaperones that are 21 and older.

Tickets cost $129 per person and they must be purchased in advance, as space is limited and dates sell out very quickly. Go to www.amnh.org/sleepovers or call 212-769- 5200 for reservations.