Wine & Songs In Museums

Sipping a glass of wine sitting in the National Museum of Catalan Art, while listening to a Jazz concert at midnight, was just heaven for many last Saturday night. More than 74,000 people (40,000 in the 1st edition last year) of Barcelona participated in the 'Night of the Museums', organised by 27 centres, opening their doors at 7p.m. and offered a night of entertaining activities, gratis, to all interested to take part.

There were concerts of all kinds, spectacles of small scale, performances, film projections, conferences, poetry recitals and guided tours. An initiative promoted by the Counsel of Europe, participated by more than 2,000 museums and centres by 40 European countries.

The concerts of the Maritime Museum was one of the busiest, with queues by the door all night, and the Museum of Contemporary Art too, having to close the doors twice for 10 minutes each time during the evening, as the people inside had exceeded the safety number. The initiative is certainly offering culture to a much ampler public who won't have otherwise visited a museum, and discovered that not only one learns a lot of interesting and valuable knowledge, but also very enjoyable alternative entertainment.

The festival continued on Sunday as most of these centres were also opening their doors, gratis, celebrating the International Day of Museums and Tourism.

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Where have I been till so late? Uh ... Darling, don't you remember

it's the Night of the Museums?

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