One of the most appreciated movies of this year is “Night at the museum- ballet of the Smithsonian”, where the museum pieces come to life and start what looks like the 3^rd World War, SF version.  For those who didn’t get the chance to see the movie, there are still chances to feel these strange sensations right on Romanian land, in the capital city.

Annually, it is organized “Night of the museums” , when museums from Bucharest open their gates without taxes ( or at least, they have symbolic ones) and the view becomes accessible for any citizen. The project was started by Donnedieu de Vabres, the minister of Culture and Comunication in France in 2005, with the goal to promote french museums. The model was followed by many european countries, including Romania, which organises this event every year, in may.

Since then, 12 museums from Bucharest have been organizing activities especially for this event every year . Between them, we can name Antipa, The museum of Geology, George Enescu, The National Military Museum. Every museum had the freedom to organize this its own way, and that’s why every museum offers a different type of “museum entertainment”.

Antipa presented a photo gallery, National Geographic documentaries and albums and organized a bat and insect hunting.

The Geologic Museum organized the Indian Night, with the help of photos, music and culinary art.

The National Military Museum presented the program named Lotus Flower which included modern dancing shows, jongleurs and magic, classical music concerts and theatre plays.

Although the event is successful and reaches its goal to attract as many people as possible every year, there are some weaknesses which attenuate the charm of this white night. For example, one year Antipa had a huge crowd and chaos was installed. The lack of light ( even artificial ) made trubles for the National Military Museum which kept unlit its museum pieces. In spite of being included in the circuit, th Geology Museum was closed after midnight one year.

The organizational weaknesses don’t cancel the magic of this night, which repeats every year and brings thousands of people thirsty of culture. “Night of the museums “ remains an European event which brings Romania on the country list which promotes culture and good taste.

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