Brussels’ cultural hotspots open late for Museum Night Fever
Dozens of Brussels museums are preparing to open late on Saturday for the annual Museum Night Fever event. The programme includes exhibitions, live music, guided tours, dance workshops and installations at 33 venues across the capital, from 19:00 until 1:00.
Participating sites include the Musical Instruments Museum, the Fashion and Lace Museum, the Museum of Art and History, the Museum of Crossbowmen, the Museum of the National Bank of Belgium and the Museum of the City of Brussels on the Grand Place.
A new addition this year is Contretype, a photography museum near the Porte de Hal. The Belfius Art Gallery will be involved, as will opera house La Monnaie and the Old Masters Museum.
Art and after-parties
A selection of calmer activities is intended to provide space for visitors to recharge and includes intimate concerts, sign language storytelling and collaborative art projects. Meanwhile, after-parties at Botanique and C12 begin at 23:00 and continue until 5:00 and 7:00.
Organiser Brussels Museums hopes to attract 16,000 people to the 18th edition of the event. The association, which is marking its 30th anniversary this year, brings together 125 museums in the capital and organises the Nocturnes, Brussels Card, Art Nouveau Pass and the Open Museum programme.
Elsewhere, Mons is hosting its own Museum Night on Friday, with events including storytelling at the Museum of Fine Arts inspired by David Hockney and Vincent Van Gogh, torchlight tours at the Maison des Collections, and neolithic flint-cutting demonstrations.
The town hall’s newly renovated salons will be open to the public for the first time during the event, ahead of their official inauguration in December.
A performance at Train World, Museum Night Fever 2024 © PHOTO JONAS POLET
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