Museum Night, this Saturday in Rome the marathon of culture
Museums and cultural spaces open to the public in the evening, with many events dedicated to art, music, dance, theater, cinema, reading and guided tours. Next Saturday returns to Rome ‘Night of Museums, an initiative to free access now in its fifth edition.
The initiative was presented today at the hall of the Capitoline Museums Pietro da Cortona by the Department of Cultural Policies Roma Capitale, Dino Gasperini, by the Director General for the enhancement of the cultural heritage of the Ministry of Culture, Anna Maria Buzzi, from the president of the chamber of Commerce of Rome, Giancarlo Cremonesi, Capitoline by the Superintendent to cultural Umberto Broccoli, the chairman of the Libraries of Rome, Francesco Antonelli and Francesco Marcolini, President of Zetema project culture.
The event is promoted by the Cultural Policies of Rome, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage, in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and with the special partner of this year, ‘the lottery. On Saturday there will be 6 hours non-stop cultural events, which last year saw the participation of 250 thousand people.
From 20 until 2 am (last admission 01.00), will be 100 exhibition spaces open to the public from museums and public libraries, cultural institutes from the archaeological sites of the city. You can visit free of charge more than 30 exhibitions and attend concerts and other initiatives, for a total of about 200 events.
«Go back and is always greater than the cultural offerings of this initiative-said-Gasperini also leaving unchanged the funds. It was made a miracle in the face of a contraction of 2.5 billion euro does not come to the Municipality, we have increased the cultural offer. The Night of Museums is our response to the useless and generalist ‘white night, someone came back to yearn.
With these events-continued-we try to ensure that people, especially the younger ones, may once come close to the one verio heritage, the only real resource we have in this country and in this city.
Saturday, he added the commissioner, “the facade of the theater will be lit Argentina: after restoring the facade with an important intervention, we decided to exploit the new look of the theater regaled with light, which is an important language of architecture».
One of the topics that will be covered will be to wear “culture-concluded Gasperini-is the main vehicle of communication, so it is the best tool to talk about important things such as wear, telling the plight of those who live this phenomenon “.
It will be a great celebration of popular culture-he said-Broccoli Our address line is simple: the museums should be fun, with only a form of entertainment is knowledge. The museums you have to marry the other arts, and combine sets tangible as the sculptures with intangibles like poetry.
During the conference to present the initiative, there was also a challenge: some representatives of the PRC Italian Communists have in fact complained because, according to them, “the sponsorship of Fin meccanica, as a producer of weapons, in the event, goes against the rules Municipal. “
