A night at the museum

-Ben Stiller as Larry Daley -Robin Williams as Theodore Roosevelt -Jake Cherry as Nicky Daley, Larry's son -Carla Gugino as Rebecca Hutman -Owen Wilson as Jedediah Smith (uncredited) -Steve Coogan as Octavius -Dick Van Dyke as Cecil Fredericks -Bill Cobbs as Reginald -Mickey Rooney as Gus -Mizuo Peck as Sacagawea -Ricky Gervais as Dr. McPhee, Larry's boss and the museum director -Patrick Gallagher as Attila the Hun -Kim Raver as Erica Daley, Larry's ex-wife and Nick's mother -Rami Malek as Ahkmenrah -Pierfrancesco Favino as Christopher Columbus -Paul Rudd as Don, Erica's boyfriend -Brad Garrett as the Head of Easter Island (voice) -Anne Meara as Debbie -Crystal the Monkey as Dexter the monkey -Martin Christopher as Meriwether Lewis -Martin Sims as William Clark

Before dawn she enters the Museum, and Larry introduces her to Sacagawea.

Due to the chaos during the night, Dr. McPhee finally decides to fire Larry, but when news reports cover strange occurrences around the Museum—such as cave paintings in the Museum's subway station, dinosaur footprints in Central Park, and Neanderthal sightings on the Museum's roof—attendance increases abruptly and considerably, and he keeps Larry on. As an epilogue, Larry uses his invention to turn off his flashlight.

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The following night, Larry uses what he's learned to better control the exhibits; however, things go awry when his attempt to win over Attila with visible magic tricks fails, and the dioramas start fighting despite their agreement with Larry. Dexter manages to steal Larry's keys again and lets all the animal exhibits out. A Neanderthal escapes when Dexter leaves a window open, and when Larry checks that everything is in order, Christopher Columbus points out the open window. When Larry looks out the window, he sees the Neanderthal turn to dust. Then, the Museum Director, Dr. McPhee (Ricky Gervais), notices the incident with the Neanderthal exhibit that Larry orchestrated, which angers him, and he wants to fire Larry. Meanwhile, Nick overhears this conversation with his friends. That same day, Larry offers Rebecca a meeting with Sacagawea, but she thinks he's making fun of her and leaves.

Larry brings Nick to the Museum to show him the exhibits, but none of them come to life. He investigates and discovers that Cecil, Gus, and Reginald had stolen the tablet and other valuables for their retirement. When Nicky manages to obtain the tablet and activate it, Cecil explains that, being elderly, he and his companions received increased vitality from it. Larry finally frees the mummy Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek) from his sarcophagus. The pharaoh speaks in ancient English and helps Larry and Nick escape. The three find all the exhibits fighting in the lobby, and Larry convinces them to work together. Although some of the exhibits easily capture Gus and Reginald, Cecil escapes by crashing the van into a stagecoach. Larry, Nick, Ahkmen-Ra, Jed, Octavius, and Attila pursue him in Central Park, where they apprehend him and recover the tablet. Meanwhile, in a taxi, Rebecca watches the exhibits being returned to the Museum.

Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is a divorced man unable to hold down a steady job who has failed in business and in his dream career as an inventor because his Clicker lamp switch has been copied by a similar invention replacing the click with a clap. His ex-wife Erica (Kim Raver) and eleven-year-old son Nick (Jake Cherry) believe he is setting a bad example.

Cecil (Dick Van Dyke), an elderly security guard nearing retirement at the American Museum of Natural History, hires Larry despite his less-than-stellar resume. Due to recent financial difficulties, the Museum plans to replace Cecil and his two colleagues, Gus (Mickey Rooney) and Reginald (Bill Cobbs), with a single guard. Before retiring, they advise Larry not to let anything in or out.

Once night falls, Larry discovers that objects come to life, including a Tyrannosaurus skeleton nicknamed Rexie that behaves like a dog; a mischievous capuchin monkey named Dexter who is always stealing keys; rival miniature civilizations led by an Old West cowboy, Jedediah or his nickname Jedd (Owen Wilson), and Octavius, a Roman general (Steve Coogan); an Easter Island moai (Brad Garrett) that calls Larry "Tontón"; and models such as Theodore Roosevelt (Robin Williams) and Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), who makes a habit of violently chasing Larry.

Roosevelt explains that since an Egyptian artifact—the golden tablet of Pharaoh Akhmenrah, which arrived at the Museum in 1952—all the objects come to life each night. But if the exhibits leave the Museum, they turn to dust at dawn. Roosevelt helps Larry restore order, and Larry decides to stay on as a guard. On Cecil's advice, Larry studies history to better prepare himself and learns from a Museum guide, Rebecca Hutman (Carla Gugino), who is writing a doctoral dissertation on Sacagawea (Mizuo Peck) but doesn't feel she knows enough about...

Night at the Museum (titled: Night at the Museum in Spain and A Night at the Museum in Latin America) is a 2006 American comedy film. It is based on the children's book The Night at the Museum by Milan Trenc. It was directed by Shawn Levy and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. The cast includes Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Rami Malek, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Ricky Gervais, Carla Gugino, Paul Rudd, Steve Coogan, and Owen Wilson.