Long Night of Museums
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The Long Night of Museums (or the Night of Museums) is a cultural event where a group of museums and cultural institutions in an area cooperate to remain open late into the night to introduce themselves to new potential patrons. Visitors are given a common entrance pass which grants them access to all exhibits as well as complimentary public transportation within the area.
The first Long Night of Museums (German: Lange Nacht der Museen) took place in Berlin in 1997.[1] The concept has been very well received, and since then the number of participating institutions and exhibitions has risen dramatically, spreading to over 120 other cities throughout Europe. The idea has been taken by others cities outside Europe such as Buenos Aires in Argentina, whose "La Noche de los Museos" (Night of Museums) takes place since 2004.
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[edit] Variants
- Lange Nacht der Museen in Berlin,[1] and other cities of Germany including Cologne,[2] Frankfurt,[3] Stuttgart,[4] Düsseldorf,[5] Munich,[6] Hamburg,[7] and Kassel[8]
- Nuit Blanche in Paris, and La Nuit des Musées in France[9]
- Museums-n8 event[10] in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Coordinated long nights in Austria,[11] Italy, and Liechtenstein, organized by ORF[12]
- In Switzerland long nights have taken place in Basel, Bern, Lucerne, St. Gallen, and Zürich.[13]
- Noc Muzeów in Poland, where the first edition took place in 2003 in Poznań in the Poznań National Museum.
- Múzeumok Éjszakája[14] in Budapest, Hungary
- The "Night of museums and galleries"[15] in Bulgaria, where this event was first held in 2005. Now "The Night" has become a successful cultural product - emblematic for Plovdiv - that attracts many tourists and guest to the town.
- Museums at Night in the UK,[16] including museums in Great Yarmouth
- Noć muzeja in Croatia, since 2005, where admission fees to all venues are waived for the night.[17][18]
- Pražská muzejní noc in Prague, Czech Republic[19]
- Ночь музеев in Russia,[20]
- Noaptea muzeelor in Romania,[21]
- La Noche de los Museos in Buenos Aires,[22] Argentina, where first edition took place in 2004. Since then, the number of museums and "barrios" (neighbourhoods) participating in the event has risen considerably.
- Gabii sa Kabilin or Night of Heritage in Cebu, Philippines, started in 2007, first in the Asia-Pacific Region [23]
[edit] History
The current all-night festivals trace their roots to several cities.
The first Long Night of Museums took place in the newly re-united Berlin in 1997 with a dozen participating institutions and exhibitions; since then the number has risen to 125 with over 150,000 people taking part in the January 2005 night.
It drew on a European heritage of all-night cultural events. St Petersburg, for two hundred years capital of the Russian Empire and still a major European cultural centre, is one of the world's most northerly cities, and as such has long summer days - a near-endless twilight from mid-May to mid-July (this was a celebrated phenomenon known as the white nights). This led to the annual celebration known as the White Nights Festival, which features months of pop culture (e.g. the Rolling Stones in the open air at Palace Square) and high culture events ("Stars of the White Nights Festival" at the Mariinsky Theatre), street carnivals, and the Scarlet Sails celebration - known for its fireworks displays. So "white nights," in the Russian context, is both a natural phenomenon of the summer, and a long-standing cultural festival that spreads over weeks or months in mid-summer.
The Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë took this idea in 2002 and spread it to culture more broadly, including performing arts, and under the banner of Nuit Blanche (White Nights, and various related names) the concept has spread. (See the Nuit Blanche article for many examples around the world.)
On the night of the 30th of September, 2005, the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv gave thanks to the initiative of "Sariev Gallery"[24] and the civil committee “Night of Museums and Galleries – Plovdiv”.
[edit] See also
- Nuit Blanche, where many examples of all-night cultural festivals are listed
- Museums at Night (UK)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Lange Nacht der Museen in Berlin
- ^ Lange Nacht for Cologne museums
- ^ Nacht der Museen in Frankfurt am Main
- ^ Lange Nacht der Museen in Stuttgart
- ^ Nacht der Museen in Düsseldorf
- ^ Lange Nacht der Museen in Munich
- ^ Lange Nacht der Museen in Hamburg
- ^ Museum night in Kassel
- ^ La Nuit des Musées in France
- ^ Museum night in Amsterdam
- ^ Lange Nacht der Museen in Austria
- ^ Lange Nacht in all of Austria with ORF
- ^ Lange Nacht der Museen in Zürich
- ^ Múzeumok Éjszakája in Budapest
- ^ http://gallery-night.info/
- ^ Museums at Night in the UK
- ^ Museums night in Croatia
- ^ Croatian Museum Association
- ^ Pražská muzejní noc in Prague
- ^ Ночь музеев
- ^ http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noaptea_Muzeelor
- ^ La Noche de los Museos de Buenos Aires
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://sariev-art.com/
