Madrid (EFE).- The Night of the Museums will offer concerts and thematic activities throughout the country this Saturday, including proposals such as a visit to Altamira (Cantabria) by the light of marrow candles, dramatized tours or recitals such as the CCCB poetry contest (Barcelona).
Created in 2005 by the French Ministry of Culture, the European Night of Museums allows you to visit these spaces at night and free of charge, in addition to proposing numerous activities that claim the museum funds.
The nocturnal opening of the Neocave of the Altamira Museum will mark the day in a guided tour in the dark by the light of marrow lamps made as its inhabitants did thousands of years ago: the tour will be accompanied by live music, a workshop dedicated to stone and marrow lamps and a photocall.
The Costume Museum will vindicate the zarzuela
In Madrid, the festival will open the doors of the Museo del Traje to vindicate the genre of zarzuela with thematic visits to the museum archive, workshops on classic zarzuela attire or a concert by tenor Enrique Viana.
The evening will also include the participation of the Cerralbo and Romanticism museum, which will offer dramatized visits with characters that recreate the clothing, habits and customs of 19th century Madrid society.
The Lope de Vega House Museum will do the same with “Isidro 400”, a dramatized poetic contest around the celebration of the patron saint of the city in which Lope will try to get a young Calderón de la Barca, whom he publishes for the first time, to do not fall into the networks of cults and gongorinos.
In Barcelona: 120 free exhibitions
In Barcelona, visitors will be able to choose between 120 free exhibitions and some eighty activities, among which will stand out a concert in which attendees will have to find the artist in an undisclosed location in the Botanical Garden or the four uninterrupted hours of live music that will be offered at the Museu Maritím.
Of all the events, the most diverse proposal is run by the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), which will offer a market for self-publishing and graphic and sound micro-publishing, workshops and musical performances throughout the day at the Pati de les Dones and It will culminate with the “Poetry Slam”, a poetry recitation contest by the American poet Danez Smith.
Opening of the doors of the Sephardic Museum of Toledo
The Sephardic Museum of Toledo will take advantage of the occasion to offer an extended opening of the doors of the Synagogue of El Tránsito accompanied by the music of Dj M. Lacroix, who will play his own songs linked to contemporary Sephardic culture.
In this edition, the festivity will be completed with a second day on the night of Saturday, May 20, in which the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, the National Museum of Ceramics and Arts in Valencia and the National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida will join with openings extraordinary until after midnight.
Also for the occasion, the ARQVA National Museum of Underwater Archeology in Cartagena has prepared workshops and children’s activities, as well as a nocturnal “escape room”.
The celebration will serve as a vehicle for the workers of Malaga’s Museo Picasso to protest in the so-called “Night in black”, a concentration in which the staff will demand a negotiation of the agreements for better wages and working conditions.