Initiated by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication and currently sponsored by the Council of Europe, UNESCO and the International Council of Museums, the Night of Museums is a successful European event held at international level and this year in its 19th edition.
Museums in dozens of European countries open their doors on the same night. This year, the event is celebrated across Europe on May 13.
In Romania, the event is organized by the National Network of Museums in Romania, a member of the largest pan-European network of museums – Network of European Museum Organizations (NEMO).
This year’s edition proposes over 300 events from exhibitions to presentations, projections, street and indoor animations, artistic experiments and performances and all kinds of cultural interventions in museum spaces, in astronomical observatories, in cathedral spaces, churches and synagogues, in theatres, in athenaeums, in mausoleums, in town halls, in castles, palaces and fortresses, towers and bastions, in libraries, in creative studios, in cultural centers, in schools and universities, in creative urban cutouts, in spaces of science and experimentation , in spaces of historical memory, in pavilions and art galleries, in auction houses and art fairs, in nursing homes, in paper mills.
The novelty of this edition is the collaboration with the museums of the Republic of Moldova. In this way, a line of collaboration is opened to promote themselves together and to present themselves to the public through events, exhibitions and various cultural projects.
At the first participation this year are: the Football Museum, the Bucharest Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Miez Festival, the Grandparents’ House “Nicodate Singuri”, the Historic Auction House, the Pandemic Museum, it will have a new station, precisely in Reșita, at the Museum Banatul Montan.
The exhibition of a world-wide phenomenon museum, the War Childhood Museum, the only museum in the world that focuses exclusively on childhood affected by armed conflicts, will open for the first time. The war in Ukraine will be dominant, but dramatic stories of children from Yemen, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Syria who experienced something they should never have experienced – the absurd and destructive war will also be exposed. The exhibition can be visited for free at the New Gallery of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, between May 12 and June 12, 2023.
As every year, Romanian Design Week joins the event and gives it a special aesthetic touch and an added creativity, along with other festivals specific to the cultural and creative industries.
The program is available here.
Main sponsor: UniCredit Bank.
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