Michelangelo's midnight extension

The British Museum is to open until midnight for the first time to satisfy demand for an exhibition of drawings of the Italian master Michelangelo.

During Michelangelo's midnight extension the works on display come from collections in the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Teyler Museum in Haarlem in the Netherlands.

It is the British Museum's first Michelangelo exhibition in 30 years.