This event, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Communication since 2005, has become a key date in the French cultural calendar. This year, the 11th European Night of Museums will be held next week, on Saturday, May 16, 2015.
From Moscow to Madrid, from London to Istanbul, it is an opportunity for the public to reclaim the masterpieces housed in some 3,000 museums across about thirty European countries and more than 1,300 museums in France, which will offer a wide choice of programs. It is also a unique moment to visit collections and exhibitions for free and in the evening.
A rich and diverse program, therefore, punctuated with exchanges, encounters, discoveries, original and participatory fun experiences, performances, shows, concerts, screenings, and other unusual paths to follow with family, children, or friends.
The website and the Night’s social media accounts will also be mobilized through special online operations organized with the event’s partners.
The Parisian selection by Mademoiselle Bon Plan:
- Film screenings at the Mona Bismarck American Center.
As part of the European Night of Museums, several screenings in the galleries of the Mona Bismarck American Center will offer an unprecedented glimpse into new experimental animation in California. These short films, produced by the CalArts school (where Tim Burton, for example, comes from), demonstrate that animation is an art in constant evolution, integrating not only direct animation but also stop motion as well as 2D and 3D digital animation.
And the icing on the cake, you will be able to enjoy Californian gastronomy with Cantine California, a gourmet food truck present for the occasion.
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Saturday May 16 from 8 PM to 2 AM
Free and open to all
Mona Bismarck American Center
34, avenue de New York 75116 Paris
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The Quai Branly Museum offers a night-time stroll through a thousand and one Orients for the occasion.
On the program:
dance tales, surprise tours, a dance performance, an introduction to oriental dance, an excerpt of a show, and DJ sets to end the night.
Exceptional night opening, free and open access to collections and exhibitions from 6 PM to midnight
Open access activities, no reservation needed, subject to availability
Quai Branly Museum
37 quai Branly – opposite the Debilly footbridge 75007 Paris
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- As part of the exhibition Written Drawing, Rodin, Duchamp, Dotremont at Balzac’s, the Maison de Balzac offers, on Saturday, May 16 at 9 PM, a carte blanche reading to actress Jeanne Balibar (an actress I especially loved in the magnificent film by Jacques Rivette “Don’t Touch the Axe”).
Free and without reservation, subject to availability
Saturday, May 16 at 9 PM
Maison de Balzac
47, rue Raynouard 75016 Paris
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Free concerts around Pierre Boulez with the musicians of the Ensemble intercontemporain, with musical moments in the spaces of the Music Museum for an original concert-walk: Domains of the night.
Four different programs will thus be presented by more than 20 musicians throughout the permanent collection spaces of the museum: works by Berio, Carter, Debussy, Kurtág, Ligeti, Manoury, Messiaen, and Boulez.
Music Museum – Cité de la musique – Philharmonie 2
free concerts from 7 PM to midnight
221 avenue Jean-Jaurès 75019 Paris
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This Saturday, May 16, the Musée d’Orsay will celebrate 120 years of cinematography and will become, for one evening, the most beautiful movie theater in the world.
On a giant screen deployed in the nave of the former Orsay station, visitors will be able to see or revisit films by the great pioneers and magicians of cinema, from Georges Méliès and his mesmerizing “A Trip to the Moon” to Charles Chaplin, whose dreamy silhouette will appear under the museum’s great clock. Musicians will also accompany the screenings live.
Musée d’Orsay
1 rue de la Légion d’Honneur 75007 Paris
at 8:00 PM, 9:00 PM, 10:00 PM and 11:00 PM
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- The banquet of Harun al-Rashid at the IMA (Arab World Institute).
The museum will participate for the third consecutive year in the “Class, the work!” operation. For the 2015 edition, bachelor and BTS students (in cooking, catering, and service disciplines) from the Ferrandi School will, using pieces from the museum related to the tradition of hospitality and sharing a meal, design workshops on taste, smell, and sight, as well as a buffet with a presentation and tasting of recipes revisited from the Abbasid caliphs.
Museum of the Arab World Institute
from 7 PM – 1 AM
1 rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard Place Mohammed V 75005 Paris
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This year, the National Museum of the History of Immigration hosts the Bal Moderne for the European Night of Museums.
In the former ballroom of the Palais de la Porte Dorée, novices and experienced dancers alike will come to learn dances imagined by choreographers based on choreographic and musical repertoires of immigrant cultures. The Bal Moderne, created in 1993 by Michel Reilhac at the Théâtre national de Chaillot in Paris, offers a unique participatory experience that opens up the perspectives of contemporary dance to all audiences.
Palais de la Porte Dorée – National Museum of the History of Immigration – Tropical Aquarium
from 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM
293 avenue Daumesnil 75012 Paris
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- Open-air cinema at the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris with the screening of the film Belle de Jour (1967) by Luis Buñuel in connection with the exhibition “The Passion according to Carol Rama”.
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
11 avenue du Président Wilson 75016 Paris
at 9:00 PM
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Mademoiselle Bon Plan’s selection in the Ile-de-France region:
- Exceptional opening of the Orangery of the Sceaux Departmental Domain, built in 1686 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, a building classified as a Historical Monument.
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- On the occasion of the 2015 Night of Museums, the Maurice Denis Departmental Museum, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, welcomes the public for free from 8 PM to midnight.
Around the rooms, actors offer you a theatrical tour, an invitation to discover the place and the collections in an original and entertaining way.
Maurice Denis Departmental Museum
2 bis, rue Maurice Denis 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye
free admission
Last access at 11:30 PM
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- Nocturnal journey with the Departmental Council of Hauts-de-Seine in the three departmental museums.
The Departmental Council of Hauts-de-Seine offers cultural events in its three departmental museums: the Sceaux Departmental Domain, the Vallée-aux-Loups Departmental Domain – Maison de Chateaubriand in Châtenay-Malabry, and Albert-Kahn, departmental museum and garden in Boulogne Billancourt.
These animations provide an opportunity to open the doors of the departmental heritage to as many people as possible in extraordinary conditions. In all three museums, the public will be able to discover the permanent collections preserved through theatrical tours, interactive shows and animations, and exhibitions.
Sceaux Departmental Domain Museum from 8 PM to 11:30 PM
92330 Sceaux
Vallée-aux-Loups Departmental Domain – Maison de Chateaubriand from 8 PM to 11 PM
87, rue Chateaubriand – 92290 Châtenay-Malabry
Albert-Kahn, departmental museum and garden from 7 PM to 10 PM
10-14, rue du Port – 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
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On the occasion of the 11th edition of the European Night of Museums, AWAbot offers, in partnership with the natural history museum of Autun and the MAC of Lyon, an event allowing mobile remote visits thanks to its advanced Beam pro technology.
It is the children hospitalized at the Lyon Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Institute who will pilot them remotely directly from their sterile room at the hospital. As well as lucky winners of the competitions set up on the respective Facebook accounts of the two museums.
I think it’s a great initiative and that’s the reason why I wanted to talk about it to finish this article.
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It only remains for me to wish you all a very beautiful night, under the sign of museums and culture.
