Long Night of Museums

Visitors are given a common entrance pass which grants them access to all exhibits as well as complimentary public transportation within the area.

Most recently in 2021, some 1200 museums in 120 cities throughout Europe, as well as other nations including Argentina and the Philippines, welcomed nearly 2 million visitors to their collections.

The first Long Night of Museums took place in the newly re-united Berlin in 1997 with a dozen participating institutions and exhibitions; since then the number has risen to 125 with over 150,000 people taking part in the January 2005 night.

It drew on a European heritage of all-night cultural events, such as the annual White Nights Festival, a long-standing cultural festival in St Petersburg.

[citation needed] The Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë took this idea in 2002 and spread it to culture more broadly, including performing arts, and under the banner of Nuit Blanche (White Nights, and various related names) the concept has spread around the world.

The Long Night of Museums in The National Museum in Szczecin (2009)
Presentation of antique restoration in Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom , Poland
Night visitors queuing at the Warsaw Uprising Museum (2013)
Steam locomotives parade as part of the Long Night of the Museums in Ampflwang , Upper Austria
Artistic performance "Light and gravity" at National Museum in Warsaw (Night of Museums, 2007)