The Smirnoff Co. is pleased to announce details of Museum Sessions, a unique event set to hit Manchester which has been awarded a £2,000 bursary through the Smirnoff Night Vision® initiative.

Nightlife luminaries including Radio 1’s Rob da Bank, Cream honcho James Barton, club promotions agency Don’t Panic and Mark Ronson’s agent Cris Hearn voted Museum Sessions as one of the UK’s most original nights.

On entering The Manchester Museum, guests will pass the UK’s second biggest collection of Egyptian Mummies, dodge the claws of a huge T-Rex skeleton and step into a weird and wonderful time warp as the sound of live acoustic music fills the Victorian Mammals Gallery. The space, complete with original fixtures and fittings and totally untouched since the 1800s, is home to a bizarre and eerie collection of ancient animal specimens from around the world.

Visitors can wander amongst life size tigers, lions, polar bears and other unusual animals, whilst enjoying sets from Jamie Scott and the Town, Liam Frost, and Kathryn Edwards, all performed beneath a giant whale skeleton, suspended from the ceiling. Museum Sessions follows a successful series of Smirnoff Night Vision events in London during April 2009. The promoters behind The Hothouse Revue, People Are Germs, DJ Flicks and 3D Disco Goes 360 were awarded four London bursaries of £10k and, seperately, organised nights across the city featuring, rollerskates, 1930s decadence, cinematics and 3D visuals in a 360 environment.

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