It's nearly 10:00 pm on Friday night, and a group of children shine their flashlights on the imposing skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex.

Though the scene seems like something out of a movie, it is in fact a whimsical sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Once a month, and for a not insignificant fee, parents and kids can once again spend the night at the venerable institution -- a program that had been suspended since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

"We live really close to this place. So we can come here anytime we want," said eight-year-old Jake Nelson. "It's crazy to sleep (here) -- like, I don't know who would come up with this crazy idea."

Jake, nestled into his sleeping bag on a cot underneath the museum's gigantic suspended model of a blue whale,

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