Museum Night is an exciting event that takes place once a year in many European countries. It is becoming traditional in our country as well. In 2012, in St. Petersburg, as in Moscow and many other cities of Russia, the event was held on the night of May 19-20.
Instructions
Step 1
This event is timed to coincide with the International Day of Museums, which is celebrated on May 18. Its essence boils down to the fact that only once a year, for a relatively small amount, each resident of the country has the opportunity to visit several museums at once at unconventional times - evening and night hours.
Step 2
According to information published on the official website of the event in St. Petersburg, the number of participants in the Night of Museums and visitors is growing every year. For example, in 2012, 77 museum sites participated in the project, which is 18 more than in the previous year. Among the new members were the Museum of Puppets, the Theater Library, the Museum of the Academy of Arts, etc. In addition, four free sites were opened that night: St. Isaac's Cathedral, the Museum of the History of Brewing, the Duty Stables pavilion in Tsarskoye Selo and the Staraya Derevnya restoration and storage center.
Step 3
Visitors had the opportunity to purchase a single ticket in advance at a price of 300 rubles, which gave them the right to get on an excursion to any of the museums declared in the action, without exception. The program of the event was really rich, because the Night of Museums includes not only author's excursions, but also master classes, concert performances, performances and historical reconstructions. For example, in the library to them. M. Yu. Lermontov, a stylization of a masquerade ball took place, a pneumatic shooting range worked in the exhibition hall of the Narva Triumphal Gates, where several types of historical weapons were presented, etc.
Step 4
The holiday ended with a general graffiti show on the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress, in which professional artists and amateurs took part. The event also resulted in a survey among visitors to the Museum Night. Curiously, slightly less than half of the respondents answered that they had visited the museum for the last time this month. And about a third of the survey participants expressed a proposal to extend the opening hours of St. Petersburg museums until 10 pm at least one day a week.
