Long Night of Museums
The Long Night of Museums, Museum Night in Switzerland, is a joint effort of several museums and cultural institutions in one place that are open together into the night and market the event together to make new groups of visitors to cultural institutions attentive.
For the first time found a Long Night of Museums in January 1997 in Berlin. Since then, the number of museums, exhibitions and art projects involved has increased from twelve to 125. A joint ticket allows visitors to not only access to all participating institutions, but also the use of public transport there.
Since the concept very successfully attracts a large number of visitors on a regular basis, find museum nights now held in over 120 cities. In addition to the Berlin Long Night of Museums also have the Nuit Blanche in Paris, the museum - n8 in Amsterdam, the Main gained a high profile Long Night of Museums in Vienna and the night of the museums in Frankfurt and Offenbach.
In 2007, the transnational action from the Euro Europe unterstützt.So was opened on May 19, 2007 in 39 states more than 2000 museums on Saturday night. In Europe alone, took the cities of Baku, Brussels, London, Paris, Strasbourg, Zagreb, Bratislava, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Belgrade, Tallinn, Budapest, Venice, Lugano, Vilnius, Krakow, Warsaw and Bucharest part.
Germany
After Berlin, according to press reports, the Long Night of Museums in the Rhine -Neckar region where the cities of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Ludwigshafen are involved with more than 100 stations, the largest nationwide.
In Frankfurt, the Night of Museums takes place every year since 2000 with opening times from 19:00 bis 1:00 clock in the morning instead and is adjacent to the Museum Embankment Festival, the second major annual festival at the local museums, in which these are open longer. At the same time take the museums in Offenbach part in the event. That night also numerous galleries are open.
In Leipzig, University of Leipzig opens at the annual Museum Night also its numerous learning and teaching collections to the general public; Fachhochschule HTWK host the Long Night of the computer games.
A Long Night of Museums with opening times to 1:00 clock there in Bonn as part of the annual Museum Mile Festival since 1995.
In Bremen, Chemnitz, Coburg, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Erfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Jena, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kiel, Koblenz, Cologne, Lübeck, Mainz, Germany, Meissen, Munich, Munster, Nuremberg, Offenbach am Main, Oldenburg, Rostock, Stuttgart and Weimar are held Long nights annually.
In Lüneburg place every 2 years a long night d museums instead.
Austria, South Tyrol, Liechtenstein
Since 2000, Long Nights of Museums are at the same time every year, in Austria, South Tyrol and Liechtenstein. Organizer is the ORF. All participating museums are open on this day from 18:00 bis 1:00 clock in the morning. Within certain areas, it is possible, with a shuttle to visit several museums.
Instead Found this has been a long night on 17 June 2000 and 9 June 2001, 5 October 2002, 20 September 2003, 9 October 2004, 8 October 2005, 7 October 2006, October 6, 2007 October 4 2008 and 3 October 2009. 2003 250,000 visitors were counted. On 9 October 2004 participated in it throughout Austria already 437 museums in part.
In the tenth Long Night on October 3, 2009, more than 650 museums were open. For the first time took the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum part in Bratislava. A total of 443 500 visitors visited the museums in 2009. Also in 2010, a slight increase to 443 800 visitors recorded.
In 2010, the action in the Province of Bolzano was carried out on 18 September 2010. Participated have 35 museums. In 2012, participated in a total of 677 cultural institutions. The two strongest cities were 2012 Salzburg and Vienna. In Vienna alone there were 121 museums and galleries, but a slight decline in visitor numbers in Austria and Liechtenstein was posted. 434 873 tickets were sold total, almost 10,000 fewer than in 2010. A total since 2000 throughout Austria almost 4.2 million visitors to the Long Night of Museums in part.
Poland
In 2003, the first " Noc Muzeów " was organized by the Poznań National Museum. At the Museum night in 2010, all major Polish cities already participated.
Switzerland
In Switzerland, there are nights Museum in Basel, Bern (since 2003), Lucerne, St. Gallen and Zurich ( since 1999).
Slovakia
Since 2005, the Long Night of Museums ( Noc muzei a more galleries ) is also performed in Bratislava. In 2010, and was attended by 30 museums, galleries and cultural institutions.
Czechia
In the Czech Republic the Museum Night has been performed since the mid- 2000s, but not to a single date. In 2012 participated in Prague 39 institutions, with about 200,000 visitors, it partially.
Outside Europe
- La Noche de los Museos in Buenos Aires, Argentina, first held in 2004.
- Gabii sa Kabilin or Night of Heritage ( "Night of the heritage " ) in Cebu City in the Philippines, first held in 2006 by the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. ( RAFI ) and the first event of its kind in the Asia -Pacific region
Format takeovers
The great success of the Long Night of Museums, the Community Public Relations inspired other areas in various countries and established the type of event, " Long Night " in various fields of culture, science, churches to retail.
See also
- International Museum Day