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If you’ve ever wondered how factually accurate Ben Stiller’s movie “Night at the Museum” was, now’s your opportunity to find out firsthand.

The word’s still out on whether any dinosaur skeletons will come to life and eat you, but there’s plenty of excitement in store for the American Museum of Natural History’s first adults-only sleepover Friday night. If it goes well, others will be scheduled (62,000 people have already participated in the kid-friendly version).

“The nice thing about being in the museum at night, there’s a point at which you’ll find yourself standing alone in complete darkness, one-on-one with the content,” says Brad Harris, senior director of visitor services. “It’s quite a unique experience.”

The sleepover ($375 for nonmembers, $325 for members; amnh.org/sleepovers) goes from 6:30 p.m. on Friday to 9 a.m. Saturday and features flashlight tours, live music, a midnight space show screening, a three-course dinner and sleeping on cots underneath the museum’s famed 94-foot blue whale.

As for the 21-and-up requirement, Harris isn’t anticipating any drunken debauchery. “We’ll have one Champagne toast and there’ll be wine with dinner, but that’s the extent of it,” he says. “If that’s the goal of the participant . . . But the folks we’ve been talking to, I think they’re much more nerdish.”

The Rubin Museum, home to art from the Himalayas, has hosted sold-out “Dream-Overs” since 2011, the most recent of which included lessons on the importance of dreams in Tibetan medicine. At least one more is planned for the future (e-mail programming@ rmanyc.org to stay updated).

Families, kids’ groups and individuals can suit up for “Operation Slumber” events at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on multiple Saturdays throughout the fall. Highlights of the overnight include a scavenger hunt, guided flashlight tours and a ride on the XD Theater Cosmic Coaster. Individual tickets are $120, $99 per person for groups of 15 or more — visit intrepidmuseum.org or call 646-381- 5010 for more info.

But if you want something a little more wild, test out the Bronx Zoo’s family overnight safari ($185 per person; bronxzoo.org). Going strong for 20 years, its next overnight is Sept. 13. Nothing quite compares to a wake-up call from a group of sea lions.