22nd Long Night Of Museums Berlin
Today, Saturday the 26th of January, the 22nd Long Night Of Museums takes place in Berlin from 6pm to 2am.
Standing in the context of the Wissenschaftsjahr Mathematik (Year of Science on Mathematics) the topic of the 22nd Long Night Of Museums centres about TIME in any of its facets: ranging from the calculation of times to chronometry, and from Kronos, the flowing time, to Kairos, the right point in time.
About 50 museums and exhibition institutions in the area between Lustgarten and Dahlem are invited to participate and are connected by five comfortable bus routes. Many of them are going to offer exhibitions, guided tours, or musical-literary programmes centring about the mystery of time. Simultaneously with the start of the Berliner Museumsportal, the 22nd Long Night will be opened up at 6 p.m. in the Kulturforum which will also function as logistic centre of the Long Night.
The date of the 22nd Long Night fits its topic: The word January has its origin in the Latin word “ianua” meaning “gate” or “access”. It has been named after the Janus-faced Roman god Ianus in 153 B. C. who is both the god of beginning and end. Thus one side of January faces the old, the other the new year.
The programme of the 22nd Long Night Of Museums is available at www.lange-nacht-der-museen.de as pdf-download. Furthermore, the free programme will be available at all participating museums.
Tickets on the day of the event: 15 Euro, reduced 10 Euro
Children until the age of 12 have free entrance
tickets are available at the Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz / Matthäikirchplatz
Photo: Sergej Horovitz
