Long night of culture

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The Long Night of Culture is an event in which visitors have the opportunity to use the museum and cultural offerings of the respective organizing city for an evening at a significantly reduced price, sometimes free of charge. The Long Night of Culture is also known as the Long Night of Museums in some parts of the country . In the cultural nights , theater and drama are usually also involved.

The Long Night of Culture is an amalgamation of local museums, theaters, groups of actors and religious institutions. In the meantime, almost every major city in Germany offers a Long Night of Culture. These nights take place in Bayreuth, Berlin, Bremen as well as Bremerhaven, Düsseldorf, Darmstadt, Duisburg, Dortmund, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Hanover, Kassel, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart .

The Long Night in Europe and the USA

The Long Night of Culture is also enjoying growing popularity in Europe and the USA. Similar events take place regularly in Paris, Amsterdam and New York.

In the 1990s, especially in the metropolises and the populous regions of Europe and the USA, cultural events that enjoy a high level of awareness developed.

Since mid-2000, this event has also taken place annually in Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol. The growing number of participants and visitors should also be emphasized here. Over 600 museums, theaters and other cultural institutions are now taking part in these nights. At the 2008 event, nearly 500,000 people attended these events.

Since the beginning of the Long Night of Culture, another positive detail has emerged: Many tourists interested in culture come to attend the respective Long Night of Culture. Many local people interested in culture often visit these nights.

Visitors

The Long Night of Culture lives from its uniqueness and uniqueness. If it is held too often, the interest wanes because the basic concepts do not change and monotony could arise. As a result, for example, the Long Night of the Museums in Berlin had to be canceled in January 2007 due to a decline in visitors. Here, if the event is to be maintained, the municipalities are required to develop new concepts and develop broader programs. However, in many municipalities the offer is stable or growing in popularity.

Web links

literature

  • Thomas Henke: The window next to mine: Presentation for the long night of the Oldenburg museums. Isensee-Verlag, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89995-370-1 .
  • Juliane Krause: The Long Night of Museums as an instrument of city marketing. Grin-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-67361-7 . (on-line)
  • Monika Hagedorn-Saupe among others: Long Night of the Museums - an empirical study in Berlin. Institute for Museum Studies, 2003, ISSN  0931-7961 , issue 56.