The thirteenth edition of the Museums Night, an event where such institutions from all over Europe stay open for the duration of a night, takes place on May 20. This edition will take place in Bucharest under a new concept, which looks at “the continuously transforming museum,” according to the Romanian National Museums Network (RMNR).

The concept will make its debut at the event with an exhibition dedicated to the various types of living experiences available in Bucharest over the past 70 years, and it will be officially launched at Nod Makerspace two months after the Museums Night.

The project was designed as a museum that showcases things as it develops new content and collects objects for a new theme or destination. “It can become at any time a Rock Music Museum or a Communism Museum. To understand it better you need to position it between the classic museum and an alternative space for experimenting and contact with the creative environment,” Dragos Neamu, project manager of RMNR, explained.

Since dialogue is a central theme at this edition of the Museums Night, it will extend to the first “café-space” of the event. The café will be open between May 15 and May 19 at the National Museum of Old Maps and Books and will be a space “to facilitate an inspirational and constructive dialogue between museum staff and the public, invited to come to the café and offer suggestions about their involvement in the dynamics of a museum,” the organizers say.

A Romanian-language presentation of the moving-museum project is available here.

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