One lantern each
A warm 2,700 K beam, weighted for the hand. There are no other lights in the building until you earn them.
Open 21:00 — 04:00 · Lanterns issued at the door
Reliquary
An after-hours museum. Six objects, two thousand years,
and the small light in your hand.
The night hours
We turned the lights off on purpose.
Under museum floodlight, every object looks the same: flat, catalogued, finished. By a single moving light they look the way their makers saw them — by lamp, by fire, by moon. Relief comes back. Gold wakes up. You notice the chisel.
Photograph to illuminate
Each relic you document switches on its own exhibit lamp. By dawn, the hall is lit by the people who walked it.
Silence after midnight
Conversation stops at twelve. What remains is footsteps, the tick of the building cooling, and the objects.
“I have walked past that helmet a hundred times in daylight. At two in the morning it looked back.”
— Member since 2019
6relics on the night floor
2,300years between the oldest and youngest
40visitors admitted per night
Membership
Keep a key to the dark.
Night Visitor
€18 / night
- One lantern, one evening
- Entry until 01:00
- Your photographs, printed at the door
Keeper
€240 / year
- Unlimited nights, any hour
- Your own engraved brass lantern
- Quarterly new-moon openings
- Bring one guest, always
Patron
€1,200 / year
- Everything a Keeper has
- A private hour with a curator
- Name on the lamp you light first