For the first time in Romania, the popular Night of Museums event will hold an edition in local villages in September, the National Museums Network (RNMR) announced.

Scheduled for September 2, the event will offer the public cultural activities and educational programs in various spaces with historical and heritage value located in villages and communes across Romania. It aims to put the current patrimonial issues of the Romanian peasant and the Romanian village into public debate while promoting the collections of rural museums and the tourist potential of small communities.

“The National Museums Network targets, through this debut program, the museums, collections, memorial houses and immovable heritage sites located in communes and villages in Romania […]. We also extend the public invitation to participate to churches with high heritage value and fortified ones, fortresses and palaces in the countryside, monasteries with a rich and valuable collection of religious art, noble residences, towers or archaeological sites open to the public, but also guesthouses that want to organize and host museum activities or experiments and curatorial projects, creative residencies, contemporary art camps, mills, animal farms, and so on,” said Dragoș Neamu, Coordinator of the Department of International Relations and Cultural Projects, manager of the Night of Museums in Villages.

Cultural venues that want to participate in the event can request the registration form by email at noaptea_muzeelor@yahoo.com. The registration period is June 22 - July 25, 2023.

During the first edition of the Night of Museums in Villages, the organizations enrolled in the program will benefit from promotion and representation within the Noapteamuzeelor.org platform (currently being updated), which will provide the public with information about the events, activities and projects planned for September 2.

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