Thus, more than 45 museums of the region, including 3 new open their doors to welcome visitors in an unusual way until the middle of the night. The ceramic museum in Desvres, the Frac of Dunkirk and the Leroux House at Orchies participate for the first time in this event.
On the occasion of this edition the museums propose a eclectic programming to discover the art and heritage of the Nord – Pas-de-Calais in all its diversity. Various animations punctuate this night through fashion, music, theatre, literature, but also dance that dialogue with the collections of museums.
Music lovers can attend concerts in quartet around medieval polyphonies museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer or jazz at departmental glass museum-workshop in Sars-Poteries. The instrumental ensemble of the Dunkerque Conservatory offers a cover of songs by Pink Floyd at LAAC while at departmental museum Matisse du Cateau-Cambrésis, the concert of Astrée invites the visitor to a unique moment where lyrical singing and music mingle with the exhibition of national interest in 2014, dedicated to Jean Dewasne.
The operation The class, the work! , between the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Culture and discover the Flemish and Dutch cabinets of the Cambrai Museum of Fine Arts, to present to the musée du Touquet original mediations made around a painting by Henri Le Sidaner, or to address the work of Niki de Saint-Phalle at Dunkerque LAAC, by Francis Tattegrain at Boulogne-sur-Mer or Karen Lamonte to Sars-Poteries.
Finally, visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts in Calais will be able to discover the collection of Sylvie Ungaer in motion on a dance performance, while the departmental museum of Flanders in Cassel totally revisited will give them the opportunity to make unexpected encounters. A Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, workshops organized by the Abbey Tower Museum are waiting for visitors around an exhibition dedicated to the beautiful writing and the plant kingdom, while they are invited to dive into antiquity at Ancient forum of Bavay thanks to the latest version of the 3D film «Back to Bagacum», shown in the museum.
Organized by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the European Night of Museums is today a demonstration resolutely turned towards the public which is becoming increasingly successful year after year. The national and regional programme are respectively available at http://www.nuitdesmusees.culture.fr/ and www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/Regions/Drac-Nord-Pas-de-Calais.