The Burke Museum is flaunting its naughty side with help from UW students tonight.

In an after-hours event dubbed “One Night Stand at the Burke: an Evening of Sex, Drugs and Vice,” students in Larkin Hood’s Burke 101 class will be displaying sexually explicit artifacts and prehistoric drug paraphernalia to spark students’ interest in the history museum.

“It’s something that not many students know about, and we decided on these topics because we thought students would be interested in them,” said Courtney Russell, a junior who is double majoring in sociology and anthropology.

The idea for the event was born when students were discussing ways to introduce other students to archeology.

Five booths will feature different subjects interesting to both modern-day human beings and those that came before, including sex, gambling, drugs, food and sexually suggestive artifacts from the Northwest coast.

Students will get a chance to check out the artifacts, sample food from ancient times, learn prehistoric gambling games and learn about the sexual practices of ancient peoples.

This is not the first after-hours event hosted by the museum, but it is the first that has been planned and executed by students.

Students who come to the event tonight will see objects that visitors normally wouldn’t get to see, Hood said. The items are part of the museum’s collection, but the museum usually doesn’t display its most risque objects.

“I think sex is that one aspect of any culture that can raise the most curiosity. Just because something is considered taboo now doesn’t mean that it always was,” wrote Kimberly Bailor, a junior majoring in linguistics and anthropology, in an e-mail. “It’s a chance to see artifacts that may have never been displayed before and to get a sense of how ancient people may have had a lot in common with modern folks.”