THE Museum of Farnham will be opening its doors, after hours, on Friday, October 27, for The Sound of the Night as part of the nationwide festival Museums at Night.

The evening will include live music and performance artists, tours of the Resonance exhibition with its curators and imaginative sound-based craft activities around the museum from 7pm to 10pm.

Visitors will be able to circulate around these activities with drinks and nibbles from the bar, featuring guest ales from the Hogs Back Brewery.

Ticket holders will be able to experience live music from two very different performers.

Students from The University of the Creative Arts BA/BSc in music composition and technology will perform original music on the theme of sound and technology.

Following UCA will be Fred Clark, an acoustic singer/songwriter from Maidstone, Kent who will perform two live sets.

Evening entertainment will also feature Sprout Ideas, an improvised theatre group from London. Based on audience suggestions, they will create mini-stories entirely on the spot. The only limit is imagination.

As part of the event, hear more about the museum’s Resonance exhibition from its curator, everything from gramophones to radios, violins to trumpets and how sound has featured in Farnham’s recent history.

The exhibition features the loan of an Indian Narsinga from the Horniman Museum and Gardens as part of its Object in Focus loans programme.

If all that wasn’t enough, visitors will be able to join in the fun and help make an orchestra of makeshift musical instruments. Serenade your friends with panpipes, shake your maracas and kazoo your way home.

Tickets are priced at £6. Call Emma Sutcliffe, assistant curator on 01252 715 094, email emma.sutcliffe@farnham

maltings.com or search for ‘The Sound of the Night’ on Eventbrite for tickets. Please note this event is for over 18s only.