Ipswich Museum threw open its doors to welcome more than 200 Harry Potter fans for a night of spells, divination and potion making.
Visitors and staff came decked out in costumes, including everything from Tudor ghosts and moving portraits to Hogwarts students and even a copy of The Daily Prophet.
Once welcomed with a cocktail in the atmospheric Natural History Gallery, visitors were able to try their hand a range of Hogwarts-inspired activities or enjoy a drink in the Potion’s Dungeon.
For those feeling crafty, visitors could make clay skulls inspired by Ipswich Museums’ bone collections or fashion their own feather quills and practice calligraphy. For visitors interested in unfogging their futures, there was tealeaf reading and astronomy classes using Victorian magic lantern slides. If taking care of magical creatures took your fancy, you could meet knarls, nifflers and bowtruckle habitats (or hedgehogs, moles and fungariums, if you are more familiar with Muggle names) and even have an owl selfie.
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