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It's not the cuddliest of sleeping companions, but that didn't stop Jonathan and Sebastian Mendez. The 9-year-old twins knew exactly where they wanted to lay their sleeping bags for the night - - underneath the huge replica of a blue whale.
The boys, parents in tow, were bunking down at the American Museum of Natural History as part of a new program that gives kids a new way of looking at the museum -- by night.
"I never got to sleep under a whale," Jonathan said as he and his family prepared their resting area in the museum's giant Milstein Hall of Ocean Life.
The sleepover program officially launches in January, but the museum recently held a kickoff event featuring the premiere of the Ben Stiller movie "Night at the Museum." Parts of the movie, in...