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| LONG NIGHT OF MUSEUMS 18/05/2009 |
| (2009-05-18) |
| Last updated: 2009-05-19 17:36 EET |
Museums across Romania remained open until late at night on Saturday. Eleven such institutions in Bucharest and several others in the country opened their doors, until dawn, to people who wanted to get their fill of culture on the Long Night of Museums, an event that started in France in 1999 and then spread across Europe. The programme, designed to encourage people, particularly the young, to visit their local museums, has this year focused on strengthening the interaction between museums and creative work. Exhibitions, music shows, dance, theatre, film, outdoor screenings, were just some of the surprises awaiting the public on Saturday night.
Free entry and the good weather also contributed to attracting visitors. This is why as many as 100 thousand Bucharest inhabitants answered their invitation. There was incredible queuing at the National Contemporary Art Museum, one of the most visited institutions in Bucharest, and also at the National Art Museum of Romania and the National History Museum. The latter gave visitors an opportunity to attend screenings of historic animation films and presentations of military uniforms and equipment dating since the reign of King Carol I, who ruled Romania between 1866 and 1914, while dance and sword fight demonstrations and the Irish singing and dance shows delighted the audience. On the other hand, at the National Art Museum, visitors were invited to create their own poems, by taking texts out of a hat at random, following the Dada model, and overlapping them on paintings.
Meanwhile, the National Museum of Maps and Old Books, one of the four such museums in Europe, invited visitors to look at a chronology of cartographic achievements around the world. Such a cultural phenomenon could not have gone unnoticed by the media. “Museums – a one-night love affair for Romanians,” headlines the newspaper Evenimentul Zilei, which adds that the streets of the capital city were even more crowded than they were on the New Year's Eve. The newspaper also says that, according to sociologists, it is abroad that Romanians have discovered the pleasure of visiting cultural institutions. The newspaper ADEVARUL also writes that in many cities there was queuing at museums' doors, with organisers saying they had more visitors than they had expected. In other words, this year's celebration of museums has reached its goal, as tens of thousands of people chose to spend an unusual night out.
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