Free Museum Night in Barcelona

Macba Museum Barcelona

Museum Night is back for another year. So, this Saturday, 15 May, from 7 pm until 1 am, forty museums and exhibition centres will be open for free. The Museum Night programme for this year has been organised around six areas of the city, each area groups together several centres and museums that are close to each other. The first runs from Montjuïc to Hospitalet, the second from Eixample to Gràcia, the third from the Barri Gòtic to the sea, the fourth from Raval to the port, the fifth covers Badalona, Glòries and Ciutadella, and the sixth Pedralbes, Esplugues and Cornellà.

Among eleven new centres and museums that are to open their collections and temporary exhibitions to the public for the night are Arts Santa Mònica, the Museu Agbar de les Aigües, the Centre Cultural Metropolità Tecla Sala, the Museu Can Tinturé and the Museu Egipci de Barcelona.

This is not all Museum Night has to offer because special activities are being organised, such as concerts, magic shows, dance, theatre, guided tours, storytelling, talks and poetry (coinciding with Poetry Week).

These activities are aimed at everybody and include the farewell party at the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, a way of celebrating the start of a new era at its future home in the “Blue Building” at the Forum.

Another event open to everyone is a joint activity involving all the centres and museums at the same time. It is a flash mob which requires everyone to remain quiet for three minutes from midnight.

MNAC celebrates 75 years

MNAC - Museu d'Art de Catalunya

MNAC is 75 years old and is celebrating this by inviting everyone over to its open evening. It will take place thoday Friday 18/12 and visitors will be able to enter its permanent and temporary exhibitions for free. What’s more, there will be talks on some of the museum’s works and live music.

From 7 pm to 12 am, visitors will be able to see for free both its permanent exhibitions and the temporary exhibitions, Guests of Honour and The Wise Princess. The Santa Caterina de Seu d’Urgell Paintings, organised by MNAC and the Museu Episcopal de Vic.

In addition, the museum will also be offering live music by the Rino Dixie Band, from the Taller de Músics, in the Sala Oval. And there will be talks on the most important items in the permanent collection.

Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya – www.mnac.es
C/Mirador Palau Nacional, 6 – Sants-Montjuïc