Venues, news and updates for Museums at Night 2011.
When: 13-15 May 2011
Where: across the UK
How much: free, by and large
The idea of lots of museums all clubbing together for an annual late-night opening is certainly a brilliant one, but also seemingly an obvious one. And yet it was only in 1997 in Berlin that the first (ominously named) Long Night of Museums took place. Since then loads of similarly co-ordinated events have taken place – the best known being Nuit Blanche in Paris and the UK's very own Museums at Night.
Each year in May, in association with Culture24, a whole host of museums, art galleries, libraries, heritage sites, and ordinarily closed archives open their doors (and minds) for a weekend of special evening events, activities and all manner of other innovative goings-on. In London alone, participating institutions include big shots like Kensington Palace, the V&A, the Courtauld, the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as lesser known places like Apsley House, the Hunterian Museum, the Old Operating Theatre Museum, Pump House Gallery, London Canal Museum and even the Government Art Collection.
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