Hundreds of thousands queued for the Night of Museums in Romania

Hundreds of thousands of visitors queued to visit museums in Bucharest and countrywide on Saturday night, the 2016 European Night of Museums. Visitors crowded to visit for free 27 museums and 22 cultural organisations.

The Bucharest Municipal Museum only had more than 13,000 visitors in its nine subsidiaries, including two new ones, the Filipescu Cesianu House and the Nicolae Minovici Museum. Actors of the ‘Masca’ Theatre performed in three locations, and music shows were offered at two museums; ‘Timpul’ (Time), an extraordinary show, concluded the night at the Sutu Palace.

Besides its usual tours, the National Museum of Natural History ‘Grigore Antipa’ hosted drawing and painting workshops for children and documentaries offered by Digi Animal World.

The National Art Museum promoted a sculpture of Constantin Brancusi, for which a national subscription has been opened recently, in an exhibition entitled ‘Wisdom of the Earth — this is not a rock.’

The Cotroceni National Museum, which also hosts Romania’s Presidential Administration, featured a historical fashion exhibition and a theatre, music and dance performance of children under the care of Bucharest’s District 6 General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection.

The National History Museum displayed reenactments of historical battles between Romans and Dacians and demonstrations of weapon use.

ASTRA Sibiu Museum reported 30,140 visitors, while the Arad Museum Complex reported 2.500 visitors, with foreign tourists among them.

Over 12,000 people queued to visit the freshly revamped Palace of Culture in Iasi. After its grand opening in April-end, the famous historical monument became a highlight not only in Iasi but all over the country.

Hundreds of people attended a parade of historical figures in Alba Iulia, among whom Michael the Brave, King Ferdinand and Queen Mary, Queen Isabel. The parade was featured by the city’s National Union Museum. A record number of visitors, 11,600 came to see the National Union Museum in Alba Iulia on Saturday night.

The Corvin Castle in Hunedoara, also known as the Hunayd Castle was among scores of museums throughout Romania that joined the Night of Museums this year. The castle staged an exquisite light and music show.

Over 1,100 people visited the History Museum in the Clock Tower in medieval city of Sighișoara, the only museum in the country organized vertically and not horizontally. More than 700 people attended the three guided tours in the fortress within the Night of the Museums events that had an original theme “The Patrimony and the Fire”.