Europe
Austria
Austrian Military Museum, Wien
For the International Museum Day the Austrian Military Museum is offering free admission all day and an exciting program for kids. Like every year, the museum education team of the Museum of Military History has thought out something special for its young visitors (6 to 14 years). From 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. children are invited to be part of our Horse festival, where they can attempt archery, try out lasso throwing and learn a lot about horses in military history. Only if you are fit to clear up the panel game, you are allowed to ride on a real horse. At our Tombola we raffle a horse carriage for four persons. The second winner will check out a horse training lesson.
Tel. 0043 664 8876 3813
Email: g.ruetgen@hgm.or.at
Contact: Georg Rütgen
Bulgaria
Art museum “Boris Denev”, Veliko Tarnovo
Exhibition “Thirty Bulgarian Classical Paintings”
“Thirty Bulgarian Classical Paintings” is an exhibition chosen from the National Art Museum collection. It was shown in Brussels in honour of Bulgarian National holiday – 3-th of March. It comprises 30 classical paintings by Bulgarian artists from all over the country, who worked in 30-es and 40-es of the last century. What is interesting is not only the diversity of subjects but also the way that artists deal with. Artists like Vladimir Dimitrov the Master, Nicola Tanev, David Perets, Sirak Skitnik, Nenko Balkanski, Cyril Tsonev develop different themes using great variety of plastic devices – from bright, sonorous expressiveness to clear flat-decorative quality of painting. The collection is very inspiring with its sophistication, fine delicacy and interest of people that surround it.
IMD – free of charge, every Thursday – free of charge
Other days – 1.00 lv. for students, 3.00 lv. for adults
Open 10.00 to 18.00
Monday – day off
Art museum “Boris Denev”, 5000 Veliko Tarnovo, MB 250
Telephone: 359 062 63 89 51
E-mail: vt_bdenevgallery@abv.bg
Contact: Nicolai Sirakov
Bulgaria
Plovdiv Regional Historical Museum, Plovdiv
On the 18th of May 2012, on the occasion of the 35th International Museum Day, the exhibition “Time Geometry – Practices in Public Environment” will be opened in the Regional History Museum – Plovdiv.
Aiming to shed more light on the experimental use of the public space, in the halls of the museum will be presented video documentations of performances and artistic actions in public space by international artists who are interested mostly in working in an active social environment and in the interactions with people.
The exhibition will examine different artistic positions and practices in the most extensive network of realities that the contemporary society generates by focusing on the identification of these kinds of practices in the public context and their localization within the system of contemporary art. Are they attractive and communicative enough? What is the goal of the artistic interventions? Do they provoke any substantial change into the society?
Presented in the spaces of the museum the show will provide an opportunity for a logical connection of heredity in education to be established that will increase the public interest in the activities of the museum and will emphasize its mission to preserve the tangible and the intangible values as evidences of humanity. It will make visible the relation of those values to the particular environment and broader social field, where they are developed and which they actively transform.
The exhibition offers also new insights and interpretation of the museum activities, by bringing in its halls not only new selection of works and documentations, but also rather new objectives and audience. The need for social development of the museum brings the institutions and the artists together, allowing the museums in general to be considered not only as witnesses and guardians of the past and of the values of humanity, society and the individual, but also as an adequate platform and a partner in the reflection upon the processes in the contemporary society.
Participating artists:
HR-Stamenov and DLQ, David Perez Karmadavis, Bora Petkova, Saso Sedlacek, Veronika Tzekova, Miryana Todorova, Jaroslav Kysa, Michail Michailov, Valentina Roselli
Free entrance
4000 Plovdiv, Saedinenie Sq. 1
Tel.: 0035932629409 Fax: 0035932269955
E-mail: hm_plovdiv@mail.bg
http://www.historymuseumplovdiv.org/
http://rimplovdiv.wordpress.com/imd-2012
Bulgaria
Ethnographic museum, Berkovitsa
Opening of a exposition of Hristo Ivanov Tashev – 82 years of old original artist.
From the golden hands of the master : Hristo Ivanov Tashev have more then 20 expositions in Bulgaria and abroad and there have been made 2 films about him and his art.
Activities : A demonstration of making a object from the artist and participation of people from the public.
Free entrance
Fee for visitors:
Disabled – free of charge
Pupils and students – 0.50 leva
Adults – 1.00 lev
Guide – 3.00 levs
“Poruchik Grozdanov” 7, 3500 Berkovitsa, Montana, Bulgaria
Теl. 00359 953 88045
E-mail : etnoberk@abv.bg
Contact person: Petia Gergova
www.bulgaria-vr.com
www.berkovitsa.dir.bg
Bulgaria
Historical Museum, Samokov
This year 2012 Historical museum Samokov, Bulgaria under the moto “New challenges, new inspirations” for IMD will organise a couple of events.
The most significant is the annual Bulgarian national award “Zahari Zograf”, given to a Bulgarian artist for achievements in fine arts. It will be opened a personal exhibition of the awarded artist and would be displayed
all the awarded paintings since 1972 at the Gallery’s halls.
The visitors will also have the opportunity to look around the permanent and temporary displays at the Museum’s halls for free.
Timetable:
• 18.05.2012, 09.00 a.p. – 09.00 p.m. – Free visitation at the Museum’s hall. 4, str. “Prof. V. Zahariev”;
• 18.05.2012, 06.00 p.m. – Opening an exhibition of national award “Zahari Zograf”at Gallery’s halls. 1, sq. “Z. Zograf”.
Our regular entrance fees:
Adauts – 1.00 lv.
Students – 0.50 lv.
Lecture : English; German; Russian – 10.00 lv.
2000 Samokov, Bulgaria, 4 str. “Prof. V. Zahariev”.
E-mail: museum_samokov@abv.bg
Contact person: Nina Hristovska – Director
Bulgaria
Municipal History Museum, Svilengrad
Declares the 18 May 2012 a Doors Open Day. The Museum will have extended opening hours and entrance will be free of charge. The following events are also planned:
1- 14:00 – Festive program at the Municipal History Museum-Svilengrad: “140 years since the teacher work of the national poet Ivan Vazov in Svilengrad”, prepared by the pupils of the 1st Primary School “Ivan Vazov”-Svilengrad. The program will include old school songs, poems, a dramatization of a class period in an old class school, as well as old Bulgarian folk dances, presented by the pupils.
2- 15:00 – Opening of an exhibition in the showroom of the museum:”Education in the Svilengrad area by the end of the ХІХ-ХХ century”.
6500 Svilengrad, bul.”Bulgaria”-N°150
Tel. 0379 7 10 97
E-mail : muzeis@abv.bg
Bulgaria
National Museum of Education, Gabrovo
Donating exhibition, meeting with donors, interactive lesson in restoration of kindergarten by the Froebel method, presentation of new museum guide-book.
Free admission
National museum of education, 15, Aprilovska str., Gabrovo, Republic of Bulgaria
Tel. + 359 066/800 770; + 359 066/806 461; +359 066/800 440.
E-mail: nmo@abv.bg
Bulgaria
Museum of History with Fine Arts Gallery, Oryahovo
Free entry and free guided visits, student’s lecture with a short excursion, multimedia workshop.
18 may 2012 will be a day of free entry for all visitors. The Museum of History with Fine Arts Gallery in Oryahovo consists of three buildings: Central museum building, Ethnographic house and Art gallery. They usually host six exhibitions accessible to the public.
Museum of History in Oryahovo provides activities all day long:
– In the morning, a student’s lecture on the theme “Museum in a changing world” (for students in junior high school and secondary school age, but activity is open for anyone who wishes to participate). Lecture starts with a short brief on the beginning of the museums and the history of the museums’ work in the world and especially in Bulgaria. With the help of Internet, children will experience some famous museums in Bulgaria and in other countries. They will also discuss on innovations in museums’ work and the place of new media in museums.
– After the lecture, participants will have the chance to make an excursion to some of most significant cultural landmarks in the region: “St. George” church in Oryahovo, dating from the period of the Bulgarian national revival, “The Stone” mediaeval castle near Oryahovo, the antique castle “Variana” near the village of Leskovets, and the “Mladen Pavlov” museum-house in the village of Dolni Vadin. A guide will make a brief lecture for each landmark.
– In the evening, there will be a multimedia workshop on the theme “Museum and its place in a changing world”. Participants are Museum of History with Fine Arts Gallery in Oryahovo, Ethnographic house of the cultural home in the village of Selanovtsi, the “Mladen Pavlov” museum-house in the village of Dolni Vadin, and the archaeological collection of the administrative house in the village of Leskovets. Each participant presents a short multimedia presentation, describing first the history of the collection and its most valuable objects, then the innovations which allowed adapting to the changing world, and finally the new challenges and the new inspirations in the museums’ work in the municipality of Oryahovo.
13 Vasil Levski Str., Oryahovo, 3300, the Republic of Bulgaria
Tel. + 359 9171 4735 Fax. +359 9171 3371
Email: museum_oriahovo@abv.bg
Contact person: Denitsa Petrov
Bulgaria
Rousse Regional Museum of History, Rousse
Museum education program for students – training in archeology school office, practical exercises in trial plots
lecturers and ethnographic film for adults – Living Human Treasures from Bulgaria
Free entrance
7000 Rousse, Bulgaria, 3 Battenberg sq.
Tel. 00 359 82 825 002 Fax 00 359 82 825 006
E-mail: pr@museumruse.com
Bulgaria
Regional History Museum “Stoyu Shishkov”, Smolyan
Opening of the exhibitions, concerts, improvisations and screening of films expected the museum audience.
Regional History Museum “Stoyu Shishkov” – Smolyan, together with different partner organizations, has been developing and implementing programmes targeted at the local community and at visitors to the town and the municipality.
IMD 2012:
Awarding of diplomas to museum donors;
Ceremony at the memorial of Stoyu Shishkov;
The exhibition “Monuments and Memorial Sites in Smolyan Region, dedicated to the Balkan War (1912)” in cooperation with students from English language school “Ivan Vazov” – Smolyan.
A Night at the Museum: The exhibition “Art – Dialogue between Past and Present” in cooperation with students from Professional School for Applied Arts – Smolyan;
A concert of the young musician Boyko Chelebiev, a student in Primary and General Secondary School “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” in Smolyan;
A concert of Folklore Dance Formation Club “Horo” at Community Centre “Orpheus forests – 1870”; Folklore Dancing School – improvisations, performed by Rusanka Bodurova and museum visitors; Screening of films.
From 18:00 until midnight the permanent exposition “Cultural and Historical Heritage of the Rhodope Region from Antiquity to Modern Times” will welcome visitors free of charge.
5 “Dicho Petrov” Str., Smolyan 4700, Bulgaria
Tel. + 359 301 6 57 53 Fax: + 359 301 6 27 70
E-mail: museum-sm@mail.bg
Contact person: Donka Simeonova – club.sm40@gmail.com
B
ulgaria
Museum House of Humour and Satire (MHHS), Gabrovo
Exhibitions; Entertainment (attractions, film shows); Artistic events for young people
Exhibitions:
– 40 Masters of the Comic – exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of the museum;
– All Roads Lead to ….Gabrovo – thematic cartoon exhibition;
– …to Be Remembered even after You Are Gone – the top donors of the MHHS;
– Madcap – national exhibition featuring the arts high schools in the towns of Tryavna, Troyan, Sliven and Smolyan;
– Smoking or Enjoying Good Health – selected drawings from a municipal schoolchildren’s competition;
– The Roots of Gabrovo Humour – permanent exhibition;
– Long Live the Carnival – permanent exhibition;
– The Sin – permanent exhibition
Entertainment & attractions:
– Park of Laughter – sculpture compositions of favourite comic characters;
– GABROVO Planet Children’s Entertainment Hall;
– Sculpted monument to the symbol of Gabrovo – a cat with a docked off tail;
– Distorted mirrors, a joke-bank, dressing-up in carnival costumes;
– Cartoon film shows
Admission charges: Adults – 3.00 BGN; Schoolchildren, students, pensioners – 1.50 BGN; Guided tour in Bulgarian – 5.00 BGN; Guided tour in a foreign language – 10.00 BGN.
68, Bryanska Str., P.O.B. 104, 5300 Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Tel. + 359 66 807 229; +359 884 029 374 Fax +359 66 806 989
E-mail: humorhouse@globcom.net ; humorhouse@mail.bg
Bulgaria
National Anthropological Museum – Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology and Anthropology with museum, Sofia
Guided tours, documentary film, free entrance.
Anthropological studies in Bulgaria were undertaken for the first time in the last decades of the 19th century, on the basis of the population living in the country and of the bone material initially obtained from monastery and church ossuaries and subsequently supplied by archaeological excavations.
Anthropological investigations of the Bulgarian population and the peoples who used to inhabit the present Bulgarian territories in the past have rendered information about their anthropological types and have supplied evidence about their health and pathology.
Known to a limited circle of experts, these results have not been made widely familiar to the general public.
Thus the National Anthropological Museum in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was assigned the task of responding to this need and of promoting the spread of anthropological knowledge.
Arranged in a chronological order from the Neolithic till the National Revival, against the historical and cultural backdrop and the background of religious concepts obtaining during the different epochs, the exposition presents the physical types of the people, along with information on the diseases and injuries which had left imprints on their bones, and marks remaining from therapeutic and ritual practices.
A number of images from different epochs have been rendered visual by the method of plastic anthropological reconstruction of the head by the skull.
Bul. “Tzarigradsko shose” 73
Tel +359 (02) 870 49 21 Fax +359 (02) 871 83 75
Email: museum.nam.ban@gmail.com or iempam@bas.bg
Bulgaria
RHM, Varna
For the celebration of the International Day of Museum on 18-th of May:
• All departments announce 18-th of May for Doors open day.
• The celebration will also be devoted on the opening of the entirely
renovated exposition of the Archaeological museum. It will show the exhibits in new, attractive way, in compliance with the requirements of the contemporary design. The visitors will have
the possibility to see for the first time on this day some entirely new specialized halls, much multimedia, impressive pictures,educational graphs.
• An extraordinary show of the audiovisual performance “Legends of Aladja Monastery” will be organized at 9 PM in NMK „Аladja Monastery”.
The show was created in 2009 as a part of the programme aiming to present Varna as a candidate for „Cultural capital of Europe 2019”.
• The department „New history” plans:
-То show in a special showcase the newly arrived and most attractive exhibits
-In honour of the celebration a children`s concert will be performed.
• The Department of Natural history presents the following programme:
At 10 AM a lecture concerning „VEGETATION DIVERSITY ALONG THE BULGARIAN BLACK SEA COAST DURING THE LAST 400 000 YEARS ” will be held.
Lecturer: Prof. DSc Mariana Filipova-Marinova
At 11 AM a lecture concerning „Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event” and „The reason about dinosaurs’ extinction” will be held.
Lecturer: asist. prof. Stojan Vergiev
At 1 PM a lecture concerning „The Dense forest in Bulgaria” will be held Prof. Lecturer: Prof. DSc. Filipova-Marinova
At 2 PM a lecture concerning „Protected areas and zones” will be held. Lecturer: asist. prof. Stojan Vergiev
Again at this hour will be given the start of a competition „My favourite pet”, organizer Rumjana Kamburova
In the dermoplastic laboratory at 11 AM taxidermist Zahari Petkov will demonstrate the basic methods of taxidermy.
At 3 PM a workshop in botany will be held – preparing of herbarium
The visitors will also be able to see the exhibition „VEGETATION DIVERSITY ALONG THE BULGARIAN BLACK SEA COAST DURING THE LAST 400 000 YEARS ”
Free activities
Varna 9000, bul.”Maria Luiza” 41,Regional historical museum
Tel. 052 68-10-12 Fax. 052 681-025
E-mail : rim@museumvarna.com
Cyprus
ICOM Cyprus
The program for the International Museum Day 2012 in Cyprus is available in pdf .
Czech Republic
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Exhibitions, Workshop, Guided tour
• Free entrance
Exhibitions of photography:
Bernd & Hilla Becher: Coal Mines. Steel Mills. (large gallery)
Shirana Shahbazi: Then Again (small gallery)
• Workshop and guided tour of the exhibitions (from 4.30 pm)
Free activities
Alšovo nábřeží 12, 110 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Tel.+420 227 059 205 Fax.+420 222 319 293
Email: galerie@rudolfinum.org
Contact name: Klara Derzsiova
Czech Republic
Muzeum Montanelli, Prague
The Montanelli Museum has prepared the Dreams and Nightmares exhibition from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Solingen (FRG). Highly expressive works of art with a unique testimony. On display will be works by Central European artists dating from the first half of the twentieth century who, in their life and work, made a stand against injustice and dictatorship. Between the years 1933 and 1945 around 20,000 works of art were either seized or destroyed, both in museums or in artists’ studios. In the Dreams and Nightmares exhibition at the Montanelli Museum we can once again discover the works of art and the fate of those artists who had the courage to think freely and took the uncomfortable route of fighting against National Socialism and Communism. On 18th of May will be prepared commented tour through the exhibition and one hour from the records with Voskovec and Werich.
Rates 80 CZK for adults, 40 CZK for students and seniors
Muzeum Montanelli, Nerudova 13, 118 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Tel. 257531220 Fax. 257531222
Email: info@muzeummontanelli.com
Contact: Jana Kleinová – jana.kleinova@muzeummontanelli.com
Czech republic
Muzeum Jana Amose Komenského – Museum of John Amos Comenius, Uherský Brod
Open day, Vidoprojection
Opened exhibitions: Antiques of Uherský Brod´s region, Jan Amos Comenius to mankind and current temporary exhibitions.
Additional program : all day projections of own films of Museum from the Videoibrary of museum. Open day IMD 2012 will be held on Saturday, the 19th May 2011 from 9:00 to 4:00 p.m. in building of exhibition of museum in city Uhersky Brod.
Free activities
Premysla Otakara II. 37, 688 12 Uhersky Brod, Czech republic
Tel. +420 572 632 288 Fax +420 572 634 078
Email: program@mjakub.cz
Denmark
The Vejen Art Museum, Vejen, Denmark
Friday the 18th of May The Vejen Art Museum, Vejen, Denmark will be celebrating the international Museum day with a lecture 2-4 pm by the director, Teresa Nielsen, about the present exhibtion of the work of the painter Axel Hou (1860-1948). The exhibition illustrates the importance of the internet in relation to research. Without the internet we would never have had the important contacts from Denmark to Kassel in Germany where we got into contact with the heirs of one of the artist’s benefactors. Another e-mail connected us to the artist’s relatives who moved to Canada to generations back. The exhibition is largely built up of artwork on loan from private collections – and most contacts have been made over the internet. Admission free.
Vejen Kunstmuseum Østergade 4, 6600 Vejen, DK
Tel. (+45) 75 36 04 82
museum@vejenkom.dk
France
Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
Come and discover the collection of the Musée des arts et métiers. Demonstrations of Foucault’s pendulum at midday and 5pm. We invite you to follow in the footsteps of Léon Foucault, and “come to see the earth turning.” The museum’s treasures, a general visit of the collection of the museum at 2:45 am.
During this visit, you will discover objects that have marked the history of technology and the exceptional work of inventors such as Lavoisier and Ader…
60 rue réaumur, 75003 PARIS
Tel. +33153018200 Fax. +33153018201
Email: musee@cnam.fr
http://www.arts-et-metiers.net/
France
Cercil Musée-Mémorial des enfants du Vel d’Hiv, Orléans
To see the program, please visit the French version of this page
Cercil Musée-Mémorial des enfants du Vel d’Hiv
45 rue du Bourdon Blanc
45000 Orléans
France
Germany
Broehan Museum, Berlin
IMD, Sunday, 20 May 2012
11 a.m.: Workshop “Dancing figures” for children (5 to 12 years) and their families. A workshop with music and dance. The workshop takes place at Bröhan-Museum.
The workshop is free.
Schloßstraße 1a, 14059 Berlin (opposite the Charlottenburg Palace)
Tel.: +49/(0)30/32690600
Email: info@broehan-museum.de
www.broehan-museum.de
Germany
Verkehrsmuseum, Dresden
“Museums in a Changing World.”
The worldwide community of museums will celebrate the 35th anniversary of International Museum Day on 20 May, 2012 and Saxony is taking part!
The opening ceremony takes place at the Verkehrsmuseum Dresden on 20 May, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.
What is happening?
– The lab “Adventure Flying” will be inaugurated
– The new museum educational program “air journey” will be introduced
– In the “Verkehrsgarten” children can learn about traffic signs in an easy way
– Children will have the chance to ride a Bobby car or a Bobby train. That will be fun!
– A lot of other activities will take place. Explore them yourself!
The program of selected saxonian museums on the 19 and 20 May 2012
Over 100 Museums offer an interesting and diverse program with lots of different activities. Some museums even invite their visitors to a long night at the museum.
The Eilenburger Museum takes part at the International Museums Day with a “Night at the museum”-special on 19 May. The exhibition “Gerd Hämisch” will be introduced.
On the 20th of May visitors can bring old objects and the museum staff will estimate the value of the object.
The Citymuseum Döbeln invites its guests to the anniversary event “250 years Combat of Döbeln“ with a sightseeing tour through the historic military camp.
The Kunstsammlungen Zwickau offers a look into their graphic collection on 20 May at 11 a.m. The Museum opens its permanent exhibition at 1 p.m.
What else is happening in the region Zwickau you can find in the Flyer of the Initiative der Tourismusregion Zwickau e. V. (Download here).
At the Westsächsischen Textilmuseum Crimmitschau you can see how cloths are made.
In Harthenstein the museums guests are able to explore the castle.
The Museum Bautzen offers tours through the museum and the exhibition “Fascination Glass” on 20 May. From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. children can make mobiles for the window. A documentary, tours through the building and a special exhibition await the visitor at the Memorial Bautzen from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Germany
Gutenberg Museum, Mainz
Program for Kids and Guided Tours
11.30 Guided Tour, Special Exhibition „Moving Types – Lettern in Bewegung”
15.00 Guided Tour for children from 3 to 6 years „Wie Gutenberg die Welt verwandelte“
Full-Time: Mobile Druckwerkstatt (Mobile Printing), Foyer of the Gutenberg-Museum
Entrance free
Gutenberg-Museum, Liebfrauenplatz 5, 55116 Mainz, Germany
Phone: 0049-06131-122640
Fax: 0049-06131-123488
Dr. Annette Ludwig, Direktorin
Email: gutenberg-museum@stadt.mainz.de
Germany
Kunstmuseum, Ahlen
Tours and workshops
Exhibitions: “Treffpunkt und Topos: Schloss Dilborn 1911-1931”
“wie gemalt”. Bildner im 21. Jahrhundert”
– 11-16 h “With love from the art museum”
Children and adults are invited to create individual postcards at the museum’s art school
– 11.30 h “Trees, flowers, slow bugs and colour”
Guided tour for children and adults
– 14 h “Time travel through the art museum”
Guided tour for teenagers
– 15.30 h “Art in times of change”
Guided tour for adults / Quiz game and prizes
Admission is free thanks to the support of the Förderkreis Kunstmuseum Ahlen e.V.
Museumsplatz 1, 59227 Ahlen
Phone number: 0049 (0)2382-9183-0
Fax: 0049 (0)2382-9183-83
Email: info@kunstmuseum-ahlen.de
Germany
International Museum Day – 20 May 2012
„Welt im Wandel – Museen im Wandel“
Come discover the large number of activities and visits organized by German museums on the theme “Welt im Wandel – Museen im Wandel” during International Museum Day 2012.
Activities: www.museumstag.de/museumsaktionen
Contact: ICOM Deutschland, In der Halde 1, 14195 Berlin
Email: icom@icom-deutschland.de
www.museumstag.de, www.icom-deutschland.de
Greece
Navarino Natura Hall by Hellenic PostBank, Costa Navarino, Messenia
Navarino Natura Hall by Hellenic Postbank provides a unique insight into the rich and diverse environment of Messenia, with interactive features to let visitors ‘experience’ the Messenian flora and fauna and inspirational content that also highlights Costa Navarino’s commitment to environmental responsibility. The centre allows visitors, university students, local schools and the public to familiarize themselves with environmental protection issues. It is also committed to encouraging participation in the global effort to tackle climate change, while presenting the results of the research programs being carried out at Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO).
The centre is the result of a collaboration between the University of Stockholm, the Academy of Athens, the Hellenic Ornithological Society (the Greek counterpart of the RSPB), the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association (HELMEPA) and Navarino Foundation, with the support of the Hellenic Postbank, and was designed by the NGO Organization Earth and the company K&G.
Activities organized for IMD 2012:
Natura Hall, as an environmental exhibition and information centre, underlines its dedication to education, environment and art by the implementation of the specially designed Educational Activity “Knowing and Promoting the Nature and the History of Messenia” addressed to students of local schools of 11-12 years old.
The educational activity was designed by the University of Peloponnese together with relevant educational material & kits and it has been running since February 2012 with an average participation of 120 children per week.
The International Museum Day offers the opportunity to organize two guided tours in the Navarino Natura Hall open to all resort’s guests.
Furthermore, the final educational activity for the current school year 2011-2012 will take place with a special group of children: the NGO ‘SOS Children’s Villages’ will participate in the educational activity in the museum and have the chance to know all about the local nature, as well as climatic change and environmental principles. In addition, the Navarino Outdoors will organize a special bike tour to Gialova Lagoon – NATURA 2000 for the young visitors to rediscover in situ all the information they will receive during the educational activity in the museum.
Free activities
Navarino Natura Hall, Costa Navarino, Messenia, 24001, Greece
Tel. +30 27230 90900 / 91170 Fax. +30 2723090910
Email: info@costanavarino.com
http://www.costanavarino.com/#/experience/navarino-natura-hall
Ireland
The Hunt Museum, Limerick
For International Museum Day The Hunt Museum is offering free admission all day and an exciting programme of tours, talks and kids’ activities!
At noon, visit the galleries accompanied by tour guides in historical costumes as they delight you with tales of the collection.
At 2pm, “The Golden Oldies: Why have processes like bronze casting been around unchanged for thousands of years while others have been entirely lost?” public talk by Mikael Fernstrom, University of Limerick will take place as part of The Hunt’s Bealtaine Festival programme.
From 3.30-5.00pm, kids and families can drop in for a free arts and crafts session led by The Hunt’s enthusiastic volunteers.
At noon, visit the galleries accompanied by tour guides in historical costumes as they delight you with tales of the collection.
At 1pm, “The Golden Oldies: Why have processes like bronze casting been around unchanged for thousands of years while others have been entirely lost?” public talk by Mikael Fernstrom, University of Limerick will take place as part of The Hunt’s Bealtaine Festival programme.
From 3.30-5.00pm, kids and families can drop in for a free arts and crafts session led by The Hunt’s enthusiastic volunteers
• Museum Tour with guided dressed in historical costumes 12pm
• Public lecture, “The Golden Oldies: Why have processes like bronze casting been around unchanged for thousands of years while others have been entirely lost?” Mikael Fernstrom, University of Limerick
• Kids Arts and Crafts 3.30-5.00pm
Free activities
Custom House, Rutland Street, Limerick, Ireland
Tel. +353 (0)61312833
Email: education@huntmuseum.com
Contact: Dr Dominique Bouchard
Italy
Events in Italian museums: exhibitions, conferences, guided tours…
For information about all the activities organised by Italian museums during the International Museum Day, please visit ICOM Italy’s Website.
Contact information:
Ginevra Menani
ICOM Italy
Via Fabio Filzi 22
20124 Milano
Italy
Museum of the History of Bologna
“Me in My Museum” Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Bologna
The Museum of the History of Bologna celebrates the 35th Anniversary of the International Museum Day participating in the photographic contest «Me in my museum », sponsored by ICOM.
Bolognese students from Galvani and Fermi high schools visited the museum and became its main characters, taking pictures of themselves and their friends in the exhibition rooms. The smartest and funniest photos will be displayed in a dedicated exhibition that will take place from May 17th to June 17th at the Museum of the History of Bologna.
For information please visit www.genusbononiae.it
Lithuania
Povilas Stulgas’ museum of Lithuanian folk music instruments, Kaunas
Specially illuminated museum’s yard; Free museum’s visiting; Museum’s open-air exhibition
Museum’s yard will be decorated with special illuminations, that will help to create a special atmosphere, reflecting the old times of Lithuania.
Every visitor will be able to look arround the museum‘s exhibitons for free.
There will be also organized an open-air exhibition in museum‘s yard, during which every one interested will be able to look arround and gain more knowledge about Lithuania‘s traditional music instruments and their manufacture.
Free activities
L. Zamenhofas st. 12, LT-44287 Kaunas, Lithuania
Tel. (8~37) 20 68 20; (8~37) 42 22 95
Contact person: Tatjana Vilčinskiene – Museum‘s event organizer menovadove.muziejus@gmail.com
Tel. (8-37) 222464, 8686 10691
www.muzikos-instrumentu-muziejus.lt
Montenegro
National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje
Open space interactive project, exhibition
National Museum of Montenegro in cooperation with Faculty of Fine Arts from Cetinje will organize open space exhibition as an interactive project. As a response to the theme – Museums in a Changing World – the idea of the project is to represent artworks, traditional objects and photographs of different interiors (King Nikola’s Castle and Njegos’ Memorial Museum) on one hand, and on the other, young artists and designers from the Academy will be asked to “intervene” on them by creating a new, modern vision of a Museum and a new vision of an exhibition display.
Within the same project, exhibition entitled Dialogues – West/East, as a product of cooperation of National Museum of Montenegro, Ministry of Culture of Montenegro and Museum Foundation Pino Paskali from Puglia, Italy, will be opened on May 18th.
Artworks of the Italian artists from the mentioned collection will be displayed in Biljarda (Njegos’ Museum) May 18th – June 22nd and, as an integral part of the same exhibition, video presentations will be held in Atelier DADO May 18th – June 1st (Biljarda, 1st – 22nd June).
Free activities
Novice Cerovica bb, 81250 Cetinje, Montenegro
Tel. +382 41 230 310; +382 68 670 426 Fax. +382 41 230 310
Email: nmcg@t-com.me
Contact: Ana Ivanovic – icom.montenegro@gmail.com
Netherlands
Historisch Museum JoCas, Wijk bij Duurstede
Virtual museum with free entrance, no registration and no advertising, specially organized for visitors in the Dutch language all over the world
The only virtual museum with the complete UNESCO World Heritage in the Dutch language to explore over 155 countries and the history of the Netherlands over six portals
Crassus 25, 3962 LL Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands
Email: jocas@casema.nl
Norway
Hedmark fylkesmuseum, Hedmark
Hot spot temporary exhibition, Opening week 20, just before the Norwegian Constitution Day.
Hedmark fylkesmuseum presents its first joint exhibition event. One exhibition concept will be displayed simultaneously at 8 different locations, making sure the message is spread throughout the whole county of Hedmark. The exhibit will shed light on some difficult issues as we are getting ready to celebrate the Norwegian Constitution Day 17 May
Rates varies from 0-90 NOK
Hedmark fylkesmuseum AS, Postboks 117, 2401 Elverum
Tel. +47 62 40 90 75 Fax: +47 62 40 90 50
Email:post@hedmus.no
Norway
Næs Jernverksmuseum – Iron Works Museum, Tvedestrand
Night at the museum – especially for kids:
Friday the 18th of May,the doors will be open a couple of days before our season start, and a couple of hours after normal opening hours.
Kids are invited to participate in special guided tours with torches in the dark, to find objects and information, and to see film and listen to stories.
We might also arrange for those who wish to stay overnight in sleeping bags at the top of the blast furnace.
Free activities
Nes Verk, 4900 Tvedestrand, Norway
Tel. (+47) 37 16 05 00
Email: njm@jernverksmuseet.no
Portugal
Museu José Malhoa , Caldas da Rainha
May, 18th (10.30 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
Guided Tours and Ateliers (10.30 – 12 a.m.)
Creative Workshops: Self-portrait
The workshop begins by presenting the work of artist José Malhoa, inviting all the participants to portray themselves with pencil on paper. From the drawing, all participants creating a bust , which allow the realization of an instalation sculpture with a suport of a reusable materials.
(2.30 p.m.)
Theatre Representation of Litle Red Riding Hood tale recreated by the Group of Centro de Educação Especial Rainha D. Leonor, work atelier developed during the school year, according to the protocolo developed with the Museum.
(4.00 p.m.)
Inauguration and a book edition of Exhibition Plans 25 + 2 – Teatro da Rainha
Free activities.
Parque D. Carlos I, 2500-109 Caldas da Rainha
Tel: +351 262831984
Fax:+351 262843420
Contact: Matilde Tomás do Couto
Email: mjm@imc-ip.pt
Portugal
Museu da Marioneta, Lisboa
May, 18: Puzzles in Museum:
Along the Museum, visitors are asked to solve a series of puzzles that will help them get to know better some pieces on display.
10am to 12am and 2 pm to 5pm, for families
May, 19: Guided visit “The discovery of the puppets“:
Through a journey that begins in the East and passes through several countries, participants get to know different types of puppets that reflect a diverse of cultural expressions.
At 4 pm, for everyone
Workshop in the cloister: “Grouchy Dragons”:
The Museum’s cloister will be invaded by small grouchy dragons! Only the bravest visitors can participate in this workshop!
2pm to 5pm, for families
May, 20: Family workshop: “The dragon dance“:
To celebrate the Dragon year we will create a giant dragon all together!
For its construction we will use reused materials and in the end everyone will participate in its manipulation!
from 10:30am to 12:30 am, for 1 adult + 1 child over 6 years old
Free activities
Convento das Bernardas, Rua da Esperança, 146, 1200-660 Lisboa
Tel. +351 21 3942810 Fax. + 351 21 3942819
Email : museudamarioneta@egeac.pt
Contact : Marta Guerreiro – martaguerreiro@egeac.pt
Portugal
Museu de Lanifícios, Covilhã
To see the program, please visit the French version of the page.
Calçada do Biribau, s/n, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
Tel: +351 275 319 724
Fax: +351 275 319 712
muslan@ubi.pt
Contact: Paula Fernandes (Serviço Educativo)
Email: educmuslan@ubi.pt
www.museu.ubi.pt
Portugal,
Museums of Góis
There is no heritage without memory. The memory lost in time if we don’t preserve it. The museum spaces are privileged places to preserve memories, people’s heritage. Góis is a county of an huge richness, that you can realize by feelings and colours of the landscape’s diversity; by the knowledge and traditions that persists in time; by the historic, archaeological, architectural and ethnographic heritage that enlarges it’s culture. With the rotary of the Góis County we present the main information of each space.
We suggest you to visit all of the museum centres, taking pleasure of what Góis county has to offer…parts of its history. Come to experience the memories of our peoples. The feelings of the duty to respect and love our cultural heritage is guaranteed… In the last years, it has been created, by particular deserve, museum centres with the intention to preserve and promote the grandiosity, richness and sometimes unknowing cultural heritage of the county.
The cultural collections that these spaces presents give you to know the different ways of life, the love for our home, the provincialism feeling, the devotion to work, the daily life of our peoples.
Museum Space of Vila Nova do Ceira, Vila Nova do Ceira, Góis
The Museum Space of Vila Nova do Ceira is located at the Parish Council building. Its collection is very different in subject terms, because it is compound by several different pieces provided by population and some entities along the years. Now is closed for works, looking for the improvement of the space.
Free activity.
Rua da Comissão de Melhoramentos, Vila Nova do Ceira, 3330-407 Góis
Phone Number: +351 235 771 215
E-Mail: jfvnceira@gmail.com
Contact: Junta de Freguesia de Vila Nova do Ceira – +351 235 771 215
Museum Space of Góis, Góis
The Museum Space of Góis opens with an exhibition dedicated to the meritorious v- Alfredo and Carolina Travassos, Armando Travassos, Fátima Neves and Margarida Coelho, people with family ties in the Góis council, loving their home, they gave part of their memories and objects to the future municipal museum space, Museum of Góis.
With this exhibition, the town council of Góis is starting to spread the space and the collections and the donations in order to recognize and pay tribute to the feelings that leaded the donators for them single and praiseworthy act.
Free activity.
Largo Francisco Inácio Dias Nogueira, 3330-308 Góis
Phone Number: +351 235 771 113
Fax: +351 235 771 113
Contact: Posto de Turismo de Góis
E-Mail: turismo@cm-gois.pt
Museum Centre of Alvares – Blacksmith’s House, Alvares, Góis
The blacksmith’s house is located in the old house that worked as forge for the last blacksmith of Alvares, Mister Acácio Fernandes. The forge was donated by the families Rebelo, Cortez and Arnault and, now, is property of the Improvement Comission of Alvares. The space is built by two rooms, where there are objects and instruments related to the blacksmith’s profession as so as materials created by himself.
Free activity.
Lar de S. Mateus, Alvares, 3330-140 Góis
Phone Number: +351 235 581 600
Fax: +351 235 581 124
Contact: Telmo Fonseca
E-Mail: cpssalvares@gmail.com
Museum Centre of Alvares – Museu paroquial de arte sacra padre Ramiro Moreira, Alvares, Góis
The parochial Museum of Sacred Art Father Ramiro Moreira, temporary located at the mother church of Alvares, has many pieces of sacred art that were acquired by an exhaustive of collecting objects all over the Parish of Alvares, in chapels and particular residences.
Among some of the most valuable pieces, there are a statue of Saint Matthew, made of stone, from the XVI century; the sanctuary and the chantry of gilt, of 60’s, from the lateral chantries of the first mother church of Alvares; a latin prayer book, from 1801, that came from the chapel of Lady of Sorrows (in Mega Fundeira); and many other that contain a huge artistic value.
Free activity.
Lar de S. Mateus, Alvares, 3330-140 Góis
Phone Number: +351 235 581 600
Fax: +351 235 581 124
Contact: Telmo Fonseca
cpssalvares@gmail.com
Museum Centre of Esporão – Museu Casimiro Martins, Esporão, Góis
The “Museum Casimiro Martins” – Museum Centre of Esporão – has two exhibition rooms. The main exhibition room is dedicated to the village, and we can observe some objects and pieces of the villagers’ daily life, such as old photos and rare objects. The second room is available to carry out temporary exhibitions.
Comissão de Melhoramentos, Esporão, 3330-235 Góis
Free activity.
Phone Number: +351 965 751 117
Contact: Avelino Martins
http://museudoesporao.blogspot.com/
Museum Centre of Soito, Soito, Góis
The Museum Centre of Soito is located in the village of Soito. This centre is dedicated to the traditions and history of the region, presenting old objects, that represents the life of the mountain people and villagers that lead the visitors/tourists in a journey through the recent past.
Free activity.
Comissão de Melhoramentos do Soito, Colmeal, 3330-069 Góis
Phone Number: +351 933 496 796/+351 935 541 638
Contact: António Duarte/ José Henriques
Museum Centre of Cabreira, Cabreira, Góis
The Museum Centre of Cabreira, located in the old Primary School of Cabreira, presents the exhibition “O Passado no Presente. Momentos do Quotidiano na aldeia da Cabreira” (“The Past in the Present. Daily moments of Cabreira’s village”). This collection gathers interesting and vast objects together from ethnographic nature. This collection is the result of Adelino Veiga’s collecting spirit that, along the years, collected pieces and objects that represents memories of past time, a picture of the life of men and women of Cabreira and the entire region.
Free activity.
Cabreira, Cadafaz, 3330-013 Góis
Phone Number: +351 235 772 381
Contact: Raúl Neves
House Museum Alice Sande, Góis
Tthe future House Museum Alice Sande was the last residence of Maria Alice de Sande Marinha Nogueira Ramos, artist with remarkable talent for painting miniatures in oil. She passed away in Góis, on 8th September 2005. Her house and its stuffing were donated by the artist, by will, to the Góis Town Council, in order to transform her house in a house museum. The house is located in the Historic Centre of the village and it’s not already opened, being under inventory works.
Largo Francisco Inácio Dias Nogueira, 3330-308 Góis
Free activity.
Phone Number: +351 237 770 113
Fax: +351 235 770 113
Contact: Posto de Turismo de Góis
E-Mail: turismo@cm-gois.pt
Portugal
Musée de la Poudre Noire, Oeiras – Barcarena
To see the program, please visit the French version of the page.
Fábrica da Pólvora de Barcarena
Estrada das Fontainhas
2745-613 Barcarena
Tel : 00351210977422/3
Fax : 00351210977425
Email : museudapolvoranegra@cm-oeiras.pt
Portugal
Museu do Falso, Viseu
Inauguration of the Museum do Falso on International Museum day 2012
The Museum of Fake is a city history museum, made exclusively from contributions by contemporary cultural agents, working under the premise of “Simulacrum”: What if a given event occurred differently from what it did? Thus constructing “documents” that may represent that “time warp”. By representing “falsehoods”, the interaction with the real events and the city that sustains the events will ultimately come as a notion of everyday choice, by any citizen.
The Museum will serve as a hub for other historical landmarks, museums, publications, infra-structures, institutions, etc. On the 18th of May 2012, the Museum with its first set of pieces (the founding pieces) will be open to the public at 14:30h, having a more formal ceremony at 18h, with the presence of all the authors and the presentation of the Museum’s catalog.
Free activities
R. Silva Gaio nº29. 3500-203 Viseu
Tel. (+351) 232 416 473
Email: info@projectopatrimonio.com
www.projectopatrimonio.com/museudofalso
Romania
Muzeul Scolar de Geografie literara Tiberiu Boscaiu, Otelu- Rosu
To see the program, please visit the French version of this page.
Muzeul Scolar de Geografie literara Tiberiu Boscaiu, Republicii, 10-12, Otelu-Rosu, Romania
Tel : +40/0355417720
Contact Corici Marciana
Email : marcimiron@yahoo.com
Russia
Museum “Bulgakov’s House”, Moscow
Exhibition, excursions, lecture
1. Exhibition “Illustrations to novel “Master and Margarita”:Graphik arts. Painter Marina Ordinskaya
2. Excursions “The shocking stories of love”. It is night excursions on the bus “Tram 302 bis” around Moscow. During this excursion you will learn many interesting facts about life famous people.
Start at 3 p.m.
3. Lecture “ Bulgakov’s Moscow”. Author Irina Gorpenko.
Free activities
123001, 1 level, home 10, Bolshaya Sadovaya str., Moscow, Russia
Tel. +7(495)970-06-19
Email: dom@dombulgakova.ru
Contact: Sokolova Nadegda – bulgakov_dom@mail.ru
Russia
Central Museum of Armed Forces, Moscow
Historical Military and Music Festival
This Festival will include the following:
Military Orchestra Concert, Fireworks, Exhibition dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812, Tours around the museum display, Historical presentation of small arm samples and uniform, soldier’s food and tea for all the guests
Free activities
2, Soviet Army St., Moscow 129110, Russian Federation
Tel. +7-495-684-46-34 Fax. +7-495-681-18-80
Email: cmvs@mail.ru
Contact: cmvs-secretariat@mail.ru
Russia
Polytechnical Museum, Moscow
Excursions: Shot (45 min) tours around the galleries of Mining, Metallurgy, Chemistry, Transport, Energetic, Information technologies (telephone and telegraph, TV, radio, photo and cinema, calculating machines and computers, automatics) and Space.
Scientific show in museum laboratory «Chemistry» and Interactive demonstrations and explanations popular physical experiments and phenomena in gallery «Igrotecha».
Exhibitions: «The power of water» «To the shores of Russian America», «The Museum of Animated Film»
Free activities
Russia, 101000, Moscow,
Novay sq. ¾, ent. 1
+7 (495) 625 0107
Russia
The Chuvash state art museum, Cheboksary-city
Special activities organised for IMD 2012:
•Virtual exhibition of new arrivals “The Gift’s Day-2012” which was online at www.artmuseum.ru in May 2012:
Open day is a traditional holiday for citizens and guests of Chuvash republic on IMD. The free excursion service for groups of people (the 18th of May 2012)
•“The Night of museums” dedicated to IMD.
“The Night of museums” dedicated to IMD is an annual action traditional for the Chuvash state art museum. The device of 2012 will be “Round dance-Jam” – having a useful and good time in folk style (the 19th of May 2012).
Open day is a traditional holiday for citizens and guests of Chuvash republic on IMD. The free excursion service for groups of people.
Free activities
60, Kalinin street, Cheboksary-city, Chuvash republic, Russia
Tel. 8 (8352) 63-63-04; 62-42-75 Fax. 8 (8352) 63-63-04
Email : hudmuz1@cap.ru; tvg@artmuseum.chtts.ru
Contact person: Krasnova Tatyana Vladislavovna – deputy director of museum development
Russian Federation
Moscow Kremlin Museums, Moscow
Exhibitions; conferences and scientifically-practical seminars; educational activity (including lectures, special programs etc.)
Free visiting of an architectural ensemble of the Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin.
Russian Federation, 103073 Moscow, Kremlin
Tel: +7 (495) 624 55 03 – +7 (495) 695 89 23
Fax: +7 (495) 621 63 23
Contact : Scientific secretary Irina Vorotnikova – +7 (495) 695 85 32
Email: iv@kremlin.museum.ru
Russia
Culture federal state budgetary institution «”Tarkhana’s” state Lermontovsky memorial estate, Lermontovo
Exhibitions: «Around native all places …» (Minsk, Y.Kolosa’s museum), «My house everywhere, where a network the heavenly arch …» (Penza, regional library of M.Yu.Lermontov); performances in mass media, evening report «A profession — the art dealer …»
1. In Minsk in Y.Kolosa’s museum photo-exhibition «My house everywhere where there is a heavenly arch …», telling about the country of the childhood of great M.Yu.Lermontov where it spent the first 13 years of life, about a role of children’s impressions in further life of the poet, about from reflection in M.Yu.Lermontov’s creativity is open.
2. The exhibition «My house everywhere where there is a heavenly arch …», consisting of original works in equipment of a pastel of the artist of G. V. Salkov, tells about Tarkhan’s nature, represents landscapes, once videnny M.Yu.Lermontov.
3. Annually in the International day of museums employees of a museum report to inhabitants of the village and guests about the work done in a year. For last year in a museum the new exposition in a tavern was open, the new exhibits which have filled up expositions in a mansion and the house of a klyuchnik are acquired, new exhibitions in the museum and beyond its limits are open, new types of service for visitors are entered into work: a master class on weaving, the letter goose quills, a folklore holiday «I love a birch Russian …», programs «Lilac paradise», «When blossom gardens …». Evening report performance of folklore collective of a museum in which repertoire this year there were songs about war of 1812 comes to an end.
Free activities
Russia, 442280, Penza region, Belinsky area, Lermontovo’s page
Tel. 8841-53-35-4-71 Fax. 8841-53-35-6-01
Email: muslerm@sura.ru
Contact: Potapov Nadejda Konstantinovn – deputy director on excursion and mass work and tourism
Russia
Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg
Literary Museum of the Pushkin House is the first and the largest national literary museum. Its permanent exposition is structured primarily by monographic principle. Individual sections are devoted to G.R.Derzhavin, A.S.Pushkin, V.A.Zhukovsky, N.V.Gogol, M.Yu.Lermontov, L.N.Tolstoy, I.S.Turgenev, Ya.P.Polonsky, A.I.Fet, F.I.Tyutchev, I.A.Goncharov, F.M.Dostoevsky, Grand Duke Konstanin Konstantinovich (K.R.) and other prominent Russian writers. Special exhibition hall is allocated for the literature of the Silver Age. The richness of rare materials, originating from the famous collections of A.F.Onegin, Ya.K.Grot, P.V. Dashkov, F.F.Fidler and others, as well as donated by descendants of great writes give expositions of the Literary Museum of Pushkin House its unique quality .
Free Activities
199 034 Saint Petersburg, Makarova emb., 4
Tel. +7 (812) 328-05-02 Fax. +7 (812) 328-11-40
Email: litmuseumirli@mail.ru
Contact: Larissa Georgievna Agamalyan, Curator of Museum
http://www.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default.aspx?PageContentID=73&tabid=1239
Russia
Moscow Literary Museum Centre of K. G. Paustovsky, Moscow
Exhibition: “K. Paustovsky and I. Bunin” and “Reading circle of K. Paustovsky».
Interactive lesson «Lessons of the Forest»
Excursion “Moscow of K . Paustovsky”.
Demonstration videos.
Master-class.
Free activities
109472, Moscow, Kuzminskaya st., 8
Tel. +8-499-172-77-91
Email : mlmc-kgp@yandex.ru
Contact: Dormidontova Angelika – mlmc-kgp@mail.ru
Russia
Lytkarinsky historical museum, Lytkarino
Lectures, exhibitions, excursions
On May, 18th, 2012 the Lytkarinsky historical museum suggests to visit:
– In the morning, lecture for schoolboys, students and adult people on a theme «Museum. In the changing world …» on which with use of multimedia means and communication technologies will tell about a museum as a whole, about work of the Lytkarinsky historical museum, about innovations in work of museums of Russia and new innovative approaches in museums of the world.
– During the day, an exhibition «Magic thread» on which it is possible to learn about occurrence of a thread, ancient craft – weaving. Distaffs are presented to expositions, to a fabric, homespun clothes and the exhibits weaved by hands of employees of a museum on the ancient weaving loom, stored in the Lytkarinsky museum.
– During the day, an exhibition «That learnt children in Russia» it will allow to be transferred on 150 years ago and to appear in the conditions of rural school of the middle of a XIX-th century, will acquaint with history of formation in Russia, will tell about the first schools in our corner of the world.
– In the evening, excursion «Alexander Tchernyshev and the don Cossacks» which will acquaint visitors with the bright historic figure – the person who was at the beginnings of Russian military intelligence service, the hero of Patriotic war of 1812.
Free admission in showrooms, free visiting of multimedia lectures, free visiting of excursion.
Russia, Moscow Region, Lytkarino, street Communistic, 10
Tel. + 7 495 552 49 80 Fax. + 7 495 552 17 43
E-mail: likm@bk.ru
Russia
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Survey guided tours through the thematic exhibition «ARTisARTisART» at 25 Petrovka str.:
During these tours we will try to unfold the whole concept of the project illustrated with artworks from the collection of Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Our visitors will see the display of each room, learn more about various forms of contemporary art and ways of its existence and will have a chance to discuss the highlights of each part of the exhibition.
Survey guided tours through the permanent exhibition of the Zurab Tsereteli’s studio-museum at 15 Bolshaya Gruzinskaya str.:
During these tours you will see the profound collection of the artist’s works displayed at the three floors of the mansion (these are paintings, sculptures, graphic works and enamels created during the last decade) and monumental sculpture in the museum courtyard.
Exhibitions:
According to the exhibition plan, the museum venue at 17 Ermolaevsky Lane is hosting a solo exhibition of Vitaly Pushnitsky (all floors);
The museum venue at 9, Tverskoy Boulevard is hosting a solo exhibition of Maggie Cardelus
Working hours: 10:00 — 20:00
Ticket Office closes at 19:15
Free activities
Moscow, Petrovka street 25
Tel. 8 (495) 231-44-06 Fax. 8 (495) 231-44-10
Email: guide@mmoma.ru
Contact: Tatiana Bagaeva
Russia
National Centre for contemporary arts, Moscow
We invite all art lovers, friends of NCCA and those not yet familiar with us to celebrate International Museum Day on May 18. The open museum night dedicated to the occasion will give NCCA guests a rare opportunity to explore the different directions of our work – collection, education and exhibition activities. The night’s program will include screenings of video collages made by the students of our kids studio, music performances, video materials and, last but not least, items from NCCA’s photography collection.
Some of the events of the open museum night are connected to an NCCA exhibition dedicated to the 75th birthday of three renowned artists – Viktor Pivavorov, Eduard Shteinberg and Igor Shelkovsky.
Activities organised for IMD 2012:
12.00-23.30 – working hours of the exhibition “Coordinates of a Generation/LXXV”
19.00-19.50 – guided tour of the exhibition “Coordinates of a Generation/LXXV” by Vitaly Patsukov
Small Hall
18.00-19.00 – Andrey Suzdalev and kids studio. Acoustic video collages and works related to the museum theme
20.00-21.00 – Vladimir Martynov. Live acoustic soundtrack for movies “Chess Fever” (dir. V. Pudovkin) and “Intermission” (dir. R. Claire)
21.00-22.00 – Dogs of Mebius opera collective, leader: Anatoly Pereslegin. Mini-opera “Night at the Museum”. Music and lyrics by Anatoly Pereslegin.
22.00-22.40 – Sergey Zagny. Magic Stars. Kids music for piano, performed by the author
22.40-23.30 – Documentary screenings featuring participants of the exhibition “Coordinates of a Generation/LXXV”
1. “Viktor Pivovarov: author and character” (1998). Director: Yuliya Ovchinnikova. Duration: 15 mins.
2. “D’ici et d’ailleurs (Here and There)” (2002). Director: Robert Carole. Life stories of Russian emigrant artists in Paris: Eduard Shteinberg, Anatoly Rakuzin, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Eric Bulatov, Oscar Rabin, Igor Shelkovsky. Duration: 40 mins.
The exhibition “Coordinates of a Generation/LXXV”
In 2012 three famous Russian artists – Viktor Pivovarov, Igor Shelkovsky and Eduard Shteinberg – will turn 75. This exhibition pays tribute to these masters, who played a major role in defining the development of independent Russian art for decades. Items on display will include paintings and graphics, both from the NCAA collection and artists’ studios, which create a rather complete vision of their art. Works by Viktor Pivovarov, Igor Shelkovsky and Eduard Shteinberg exhibit the main vectors of development of contemporary art that took shape in the 1970s and, to this day, continue plaing the role of coordinates in the space of Russian art culture.
Free activities
123342, 13, build. 2., Zoologicheskaya st., Moscow, Russia
Metro-station: Krasnopresnenskaya, Barrikadnaya
Tel.+7 (499) 254-75-47 Fax.+7 (499) 254-85-83
Email: pr@ncca.ru
Contact person: Tanya Nemirovskaya – pr@ncc.ru
Russia
Perm State Art Gallery, Perm
International Museum Day activities:
“Dance in Vogue” exhibition
“Livre d’artiste exhibition
The European Night of Museums 2012
The Gallery offers a wide range of events:
lectures, guided tours, discussions,
performances, master-classes, concerts,
films, fireworks
Free activities
Komsomolskyi Prospekt,4; Perm, 614045, Russia
Tel. 07 (342) 2122250 Fax. 07 (342) 2122250
Email: pghg@mail.ru
Contact person: Olga Usanova – olga.usanova@gmail.com
http://www.gallery.permonline.ru
Russia
The State Museum of the History of Religion, Saint-Petersburg
• Exhibitions:
-“The Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society: 130-th Anniversary of Presence in the Holy Land”
-“The Images of Ancient Siberia”.
-“The Cats: Whiskered and Striped”
• Presentation of a new museum edition “Carved Wood in a Temple” by Galina Preobrazhenskaya
• “St.-Petersburg’s Top Mystery” – Special Program for the Annual European
• Project “The Night of the Museums”
• Reconstruction of the peoples of the North’s traditional rites “A Wandering of a Siberian Shaman”
On the 18th of May all the guests can visit the State Museum of the History of Religion free. All the temporary and permanent exhibitions are available. Only on the IMD our visitors will have a rare opportunity to discover the working behind the scenes of the Department of Conservation on the presentation of a new museum edition by Galina Preobrazhemskaya “Carved Wood in a Temple”. The book generalized long experience of the one of the best and honored museum professional in the field of preservation and conservation of the polychrome sculptures.
The Project “St.-Petersburg’s Top Mystery” includes quest “The Sacral Zoo”, workshops by Yuriy Lyukshin and reconstruction of the peoples of the North’s traditional rites “A Wandering of a Siberian Shaman”.
Free activities – all the temporary and permanent exhibitions and presentation of a new museum edition
300 rub. – all the events of the Project “St.-Petersburg Top Mystery”
14, Pochtamtskaya str. Saint-Petersburg, Russia 190000
Tel.+7 (812) 314 58 10 Fax.+7 (812) 314 58 10
Email:gmir@relig-museum.ru
Contact person: Ekaterina Volkova – ekvolkova@gmail.com
Russia
Museo y Reserva Natural “Tsaritsyno”, Moscow
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page
c/Dolskaya, 1, Moscú, Rusia, 115569
Tel. (499) 725-72-48 Fax. (495) 321-63-66
Email: press@tsaritsyno.net
Contact: Beliavskiy Valentín Alexandrovich
Serbia
National Bank of Serbia Visitor Centre (Money Museum), Belgrade
Exhibitions and open door visit to the two buildings of the Bank
In the seat building dating from 1890, visitors will be able to see the numismatic exhibition “Money in the territory of Serbia” (a selection from Bank’s numismatic collection) and theme exhibitions on minting coins and counterfeits, and other money related topics.
National Bank of Serbia, Kralja Petra Street 12, 104130 Belgrade, Serbia
Tel. +381 11 30 27 100
Email: izlozba@nbs.rs
http://www.nbs.rs/izlozbe/english/index.html
Serbia
The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, Novi Sad
For the International Museum Day The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection is opening the exhibition Milenko Šerban and his contemporaries in cooperation with the Heritage House and The Museum of Theatrical Arts of Serbia from Belgrade.
The Exhibition Milenko Šerban and his contemporaries will consist of the artworks and scenography drawings made by Milenko Šerban (Čerević, 4 April, 1907 – Belgrade, 30 July, 1979), artist, curator, manager of the Matica Srpska Museum and a professor at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He was involved in stage and costume design from the early 1930s in theaters in Novi Sad and Belgrade. The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, Heritage House and The Museum of Theatrical Arts of Serbia will mark 105 years since his birth and display selection of Milenko Šerban’s artworks and documentation of his professional and personal life from their funds. The exhibition display will include artworks of his contemporaries, prominent artist of the period (Milo Milunović, Marko Čelebonović, Stojan Aralica, Milan Konjović, Predrag Peđa Milosavljević, etc). The institutional cooperation and a display of some Šerban’s artworks, esspecialy those involving Theatar, for the first time represent a new approach to the artist’s opus.
The opening of the Exhibition Milenko Šerban and his contemporaries will be free of charge.
Trg galerija 2, 21000 Novi Sad
Tel. +381 21 472 99 66 Fax: +381 21 528 185
Email: kontakt@pavle-beljanski.museum
Spain
Casa de Colon, Las palmas de Gran Canaria
WORKSHOPS, OPEN MEETING, GUIDED TOUR ON BICYCLE AND GUIDED TOURS IN THE MUSEUM.
WORKSHOP: “CREATE A NEW WORLD. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE”
Monday to Friday in May. From 10 am to 2 pm.
Interactive workshops for students:
§ Mobility and Transport. Supported by Ben Magec.
§ Global warming and Renewable energy. Supported by Ben Magec.
§ The changing nutritional habits of locals in Gran Canaria.
OPEN MEETING ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN GRAN CANARIA
May 16th
5 pm. Guided tour. From a historical perspective, we will discuss the different elements of sustainable development in the Museum.
6 pm to 8 pm. Informal discussion of current projects within sustainable development and food sovereignty in Gran Canaria.
COME TO THE MUSEUM ON BICYCLE! – May 18 th. 10 am and 6 pm.
Guided tour in Casa de Colón as well as a tour on bicycle in Vegueta. With the support of Las Palmas en bici.
GUIDED TOURS TO THE MUSEUM – May 18 th. 11 am, 12 am, 1pm, 5pm, 6 pm and 7pm.
Free activities.
C/ COLÓN, 1.
35001 LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
Phone number: 928 312 373 /384/386
Fax: 928 331 156
Email: casacolon@grancanaria.com / deaccolon@grancanaria.com
Contact name: DEAC (Departamento de Educación y Acción Cultural) DE LA CASA DE COLÓN
Spain
Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear
Pizarro, 8, 10003 Cáceres
Tel: 927 627 305
Fax: 927 226 53
Email : mjesus.avila@fundacionhelgadealvear.es
fundacionhelgadealvear.es/activities/dia-internacional-de-los-museos/
Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, MACA, Alicante
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
Plaza Santa María, 3 03002, Alicante
Teléfono: 965213156
Email: comunicacion@maca-alicante.es
www.maca-alicante.es
Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente
Plazuela de las Bellas Artes, s/n
40001 Segovia (España)
Tel: 921 46 20 10. Ext. 113.
Fax: 921 46 22 77
Email: educacion@museoestebanvicente.es
Spain
Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria (MAS), Santander
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
C/ Rubio 6, C.P. 39001 Santander, Cantabria
Tel: 942203120 // 942203121
Fax: 942203125
E-mail: museo@ayto-santander.es
www.facebook.com/museoMASsantander
Spain
Museos de Gijón, Gijón
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
Contact:
Departamento de Museos FMCE y UP
Jovellanos, 21
33201 Gijón
Tel.: 985 181 040/42/43/001
museos@gijon.es
http://museos.gijon.es
Spain
Artium – Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria Gasteiz
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
The PDF, program of the activities is available in Euskera, Spanish and English.
C/ Francia, nº 24 01002 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Telf: 945-20 90 00
fax: 945- 20 90 49
Spain
MuVIM, Museu Valencià de la Illustració i de la Modernitat, Valencia
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
Quevedo 10 46001 Valencia
Tel: 963 883 730 / 963 883 762
Fax: 963 883 741
Email: muvim@dival.es
Contact: Sergio Vilata
Spain
CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DEL TÍTERE DE TOLOSA (TOPIC), TOLOSA
– 11:00 – 13:00 and 16:00 – 20:00 Open doors in TOPIC, the puppet Museum.
– 11:00 – 13:00 and 16:00 – 20:00 Photographic contest in TOPIC. During the open doors, everyone coming to visit the puppet museum can take part in a photographic contest, about him or her in the museum or about special puppets exhibited in the museum. There are three categories: children (from 6 to12 years old), youngsters (from 13 to 18 years old) and adults (from 18 years old on). A professional jury will select the winners and the results we’ll be published the 24th of May in TOPICs web page (www.topictolosa.com), its Facebook and a Photocafe in Tolosa.
– 21:00 – 01:00 Night of Museums. Open doors in TOPIC the same 18th of May. Anyone coming to this puppet house will find something to drink and live music by teachers and students of Tolosas Music School. Some restaurants and bars from Tolosa will also collaborate by preparing special dinners and meals on this occasion.
Free activities.
PLAZA EUSKAL HERRIA 1, 20400 TOLOSA, GIPUZKOA, ESPAÑA
Tel +34 943 650414
Fax: +34 943 698028
Email: cit@citolosa.com
maria@cittolosa.com; i.otegui@cittolosa.com
Spain
Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of this page.
C/ Montalbán nº12, 28014. Madrid
Tel: 91 532 64 99
Fax: 91 523 20 86
Contact: Sela del Pozo / Raquel Cacho
Email: mnad@mecd.es
http://mnartesdecorativas.mcu.es
Spain
Museu d’Art de Girona, Girona
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of this page
Pujada de la Catedral 12, 17004 Girona
Tel. 00 34 972 203834 Fax. 00 34 972 207595
Email: museuart_girona.cultura@gencat.cat
Spain
La Olmeda Roman Villa, Provincial Council of Palencia
“MARE NOSTRUM CIVILIZATIONS” May 18th, 2012 – 10:30 am to 6:30 pm
Roman Historical Recreations, Conferences, Music et exhibitions
Several activities will be held inside La Olmeda Roman Villa about historical reenactments of the most representative cultures that have taken place in the Mediterranean Sea. These activities will be conducted by characters playing traditions of the different political, economic and religious areas in a tour of the most representative cultures in Mare Nostrum, such as Iberians, Celts, Greeks, Egyptians, Phoenicians and Romans.
These activities are framed by the archaeological remains of this late Roman Villa of the 4th century A.D in Palencia (Spain), one of the most well preserved in the world: La Olmeda, discovered in 1968 with over 1.440 m2 preserved in situ. With this program, we are going to explain the most significant aspects of each culture in a historical recreation with its people, clothes, and music.
The people of The Ancient Rome: Different civilizations around it, daily life, sets and furnishings, dress, habits and traditions, cuisine, religion, employments, in a unique enviroment like La Olmeda Roman Villa.
Free admission
Cl. Burgos, 1 CP. 34001, Palencia
Tel. +34 979 119 997 / 670 450 143 Fax. 647 470 843
Email: info@villaromanalaolmeda.com
Contact person: egutierrez@dip-palencia.es
www.villaromanalaolmeda.com; www.dip-palencia.es
Spain
Museos de Mallorca, Mallorca
The programme of the International Museum Day in Mallorca is available in pdf (catalan).
http://www.conselldemallorca.net/?id_section=8136&id_parent=316&id_class=1851
Spain
Museo Santa Clara de Zafra, Zafra
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
Calle Sevilla, 30
06300 – Zafra, Badajoz, Extremadura.
Teléfono 924 55 14 87
http://www.museodesantaclara.com/
http://www.museozafra.es/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/museosantaclaradezafra
https://twitter.com/#!/Museosantaclara>https://twitter.com/#!/Museosantaclara
Spain
MAGa – Museu Arqueològic de Gandia, Gandia
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of this page
C/Hospital, 22; C.P. 46702 Gandia, Valencia
Tel. 96 295 95 40 Fax 96 295 95 69
Email: difusiomaga@gandia.org
Spain
Museo Würth La Rioja, Agoncillo
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
Tel: + 34 941 010410
Fax: + 34 941 010411
Email: museowurth.larioja@wurth.es
Spain
Museo Sefardi, Toledo, Castilla la Mancha
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
Tel: (34)925223665-ext. 2
Fax: (34) 925215831
Museo Sefardí
C/ Samuel Leví, s/n, Toledo
Spain
Salas Municipales de Exposiciones de la Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Ayuntamiento de Valladolid
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of this page
Fundación Municipal de Cultura: Ayuntamiento de Valladolid C/Torrecilla Nº5 47003 Valladolid
• Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de la Casa Revilla: C/Torrecilla Nº5 47003 Valladolid
• Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de San Benito: C/San Benito s7n 47001 Valladolid
• Sala Municipal de Exposiciones del Teatro Calderón: C/Leopoldo Cano s/n 47001 Valladolid
•Sala Municipal de Exposiciones del Museo de Pasión: C/Pasión s/n 47001 Valladolid
•Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de las Francesas: C/Santiago s/n 47001 Valladolid
Tel. 983426258
Email: exposiciones@fmcva.org
Contact person: Juan González-Posada
www.info.valladolid.es/webculturayturismo/salas-de-exposiciones
Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
To see the program, please visit the Spanish version of the page.
Switzerland
ICOM Switzerland
International Museum Day 2012 – 20 of May 2012
For the International Museum Day, more than 190 museums in all Switzerland invite the public to think about the role of museums in a changing world.
What is important today, in the past and for future generations? Museums offer very different answers to these fascinating and fundamental questions.
An interactive map is available on line : http://www.museums.ch http://www.museums.ch/fr/index.php?q=1064&cultureKey=fr and give the program of each participating museum.
The International Museum Day will take place on the Sunday, 20th of May.
Please find the program on : http://www.museums.ch/fr/au-musee/journee-des-musees/journee-des-musees-2012/
Turkey
International Museum Day 2012 in Turkey
Activities conducted by the Museum Curators Association (Müzeciler
Derneği) in Turkey :
A Series of Seminars held at the Ankara University (Speaker: President of the Museum Curators Association Hakan Melih AYGÜN)
– “Cultural Property and İnformation Technology”(13 March 2012),
– “Past, Present and Future of Conservators and Restorers”(14 April 2012),
– “Public, Private Sector, Non Goverment Organizations and Universities in the Field of Cultural Heritage Sector”(8 May 2012)
Activities to be made by the Museum Curators Association (Müzeciler
Derneği) in Turkey :
– Founder of the first Children’s Museum of Turkey (İstanbul Toy Museum), the famous poet and writer SUNAY AKIN will give a lecture in Mardin Museum (18 May 2012)
http://www.istanbuloyuncakmuzesi.com/eng/index.html
http://www.mardinmuzesi.gov.tr/
– ÖZGEN ACAR, a famous journalist (Cumhuriyet Newspaper) working for the prevention of smuggling of historical artifacts in Turkey, will give a lecture in Ankara Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi. (18 May 2012)
http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/?kn=5&tumu=E
http://www.anadolumedeniyetlerimuzesi.gov.tr/
Ukraine
Crimean Republican Institution ‘Simferopol Art Museum’, Simferopol
For the day of May 18, 2012 the museum is preparing the following programme including a number of presentations: ‘Night at the Museum’, ‘Doors Open Day’.
The presentations are supported with theatrical elements, intellectual games, quest-excursions, quizzes. Colourful printed materials, invitation cards, subscription tickets, prize-winning cards are being developed. Within the framework of the programme some new exhibitions, including photo-exhibitions, are being prepared.
1. The children’s photography exhibition ‘Flowers of Life’ is timed to the International Children’s Day and the Day of the City of Simferopol – the revival of traditions of family and children’s photography. The exhibition will take place from March 19, 2012 till June 3, 2012 in the showroom. Works are to be sent from March 1 till May 12.
2. The international photography competition ‘Culture through the Eyes of Three Generations’. Crimean Republican Institution ‘Simferopol Art Museum’, the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Vienna, the Austrian Roerich Society – National Committee of the Roerich Pact, the Austrian National Committee of the Blue Shield, the Crimean Branch of the International Centre of the Roerichs in Crimea (from March 1 till December 31, 2012).
Also. Since 2012 the ‘Green Corridor’ action for children’s organized audience (on Saturdays) is held. For physically challenged people and needy visitors. Besides the ‘doors open day’ is held.
35 Dolgorukovskaya Street, Simferopol, 95006
Tel. +38 (0652) 66-26-30 Fax. +38 (0652) 27-54-04
Е-mail: simhm@mail.ru
Contact: Kudriashova Larina Vladimirovna
United Kingdom
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Newcastle and Gateshead
The Late Shows
Friday 18 & Saturday 19 May 2012
7pm – late
North East England’s legendary culture crawl The Late Shows is returning once again on 18 and 19 May, with over 50 of the most popular museums, galleries and heritage sites in Newcastle and Gateshead opening their doors after hours to entertain nocturnal culture lovers with a range of exhibitions, events and activities.
With DJ sets, hands-on art, behind the scenes tours, open studios and short performances all featuring in the line-up, this year’s event is set to be the biggest yet.
To find out more about the full line-up, visit the website
www.thelateshows.org.uk or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
www.twitter.com/thelateshows
www.facebook.com/thelateshows
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA (please note that The Late Shows is taking place at 54 venues across Newcastle and Gateshead)
Free activities
Tel. (0191) 232 6789
Email: Sylvia.ross@twmuseums.org.uk
Contact: Sylvia Ross – Sylvia.ross@twmuseums.org.uk