Night at the Museum festival to host digital shows from 50 Georgian venues
The annual Night at the Museum celebration brings visitors to venues outside regular hours, with this year's event moving online. Photo via Georgian National Museum.
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For museum visitors staying at home this month for pandemic safety, 50 venues across Georgia will launch an online streaming of exhibitions, tours, presentations, videos and more to mark Night at the Museum international date.
The global date, established in 2005, will be hosted again despite the impact of COVID-19, and Georgian museums will join in between November 14-16 to celebrate the day when venues invite visitors to see their vaults and collections.
The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia revealed this week museums under its structure would join other venues operating under local self-governments, bringing the number of participating spaces to 50.
Online exhibitions, virtual and live tours, presentations of educational programmes [and] curatorial blogs, video screenings on interesting stories for exhibits and more will [be part of the celebration]," a preview for the event from the ministry said.
Museums in Tbilisi, museum-reserves across the country, "home-museums" of historical figures, regional venues of local history, culture and art centres and other venues have been included in the programme that offers all-day-long events and showcases of everything from displays of works of young visual artists to exhibitions of craft items from persons with disabilities.
Among the many events will be an online tour of the Museum of Books of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, a live tour about women's role in development of medicine at the Museum of History of Georgian Medicine, and a digital tour of the State Silk Museum.
The culture ministry has released the full programme in Georgian, with participating museums releasing their own agendas on their Facebook pages.
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