During Museum Night, art museums will be able to enjoy dance music, explore the genetic code of memory and study the origins of modern dance / Day

Structural units of the Latvian National Art Museum (LNMM) – Art Museum Riga Stock Exchange, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Museum of Roman Suta and Aleksandra Belcova, as well as an exhibition Forest of sculptures In the museum warehouse, this evening invites you to various exciting activities for families with children, young people and adults. This time, the main building of LNMM will not be able to participate in the Night of Museums program due to the waterproofing and decoration renovation of the central entrance node in the museum.

Riga Stock Exchange Art Museum (MMRB; at Doma Square 6) from From 19.00 to 01.00 (entrance until 00.30) guests will be encouraged to join the silent disco and get to know the dance music of different cultures. Each visitor will be able to choose to play one of the available music channels in wireless headphones and indulge in a special atmosphere created by the evening’s disc jockeys and the location of the event. The atrium, designed in the style of a Venetian Renaissance palazzo, will glow with unusual lighting and be part of the overall experience.

Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (DMDM; Skārnu Street 10) from 19.00 to 00.00 (entrance until 23.30) will offer together with the mediators to discover a unique collection of Azerbaijani carpets and study the colorful photographs of the Latvian old master Jūlij Straume in the exhibition The genetic code of memory. Azerbaijan carpets, as well as from From 19.00 to 23.00 take part in the creative carpet making workshop World spaceinspired by the glorious ethnographic heritage, to leave today’s feelings embodied in signs and colors.

Museum of Roman Suta and Aleksandra Belcova (SBM; Elizabetes iela 57a, d. 26) guests on May 18 from 19.00 to 23.00 (entrance until 22.30) you will get to the 20s-30s of the 20th century. in the atmosphere of the 1990s, looking at the former artists’ apartment – the furniture, interior and household items of that period, which complement the scene of the modernist era, characterized by the artworks on display. Current exhibition Body poetry the audience will be introduced to the beginnings of modern dance and its brightest pioneers – the American dancer, choreographer Isadora Duncan and her brother Raimonda Duncan, telling about the connections between artists and the influence of ideas in Latvia.

Inspired by the plastic dance poses, every SBM visitor, especially children, from From 19.00 to 21.00 you will be able to express yourself creatively in the workshop Fly like Isadora! and make a figure of a dancer out of paper.

For the second time, the exhibition will take part in the Night of Museums Forest of sculptures In the museum storage (SM; Pulka Street 8), where from From 15.00 to 22.00 (entrance until 21.30) a wide program of events is planned for both adults and children, inviting you to indulge yourself in fun and knowledge. Under the leadership of performance artist, art therapist Simona Orinska, with the participation of performance artists from BUTŌ GOOD, the participants of the master class (at 3 p.m.) and the performance (at 6 p.m.) will get to know different movement techniques and, based on the stories of the sculptures, each will create their own myth, including it in a wider, archetypal message. It will be an opportunity to experience “moving” through the body, voice, breath, coming from the actual space of the object into a newly created museum world with the human and divine senses. The master class will take place Mithrades in the cycle of events with advance registration here.

From From 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., those interested will be able to view plaster copies of Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman, and Renaissance sculptures using a digital guide, as well as take a look at a small exhibition of historical photographs Forest of sculptures behind the scenes. For families with children, coloring pages and silhouettes of sculptures from the exhibition will be available in the foyer of the Museum Repository to encourage imagination and participation, discovering how the antique figures once looked and how they would look today.

All promotions Museum Night events in the structural units of the Latvian National Art Museum are free of charge.

We would like to remind you that due to the preservation of works of art, the flow of visitors will be limited during the Night of Museums.

In 2023, the ambitious European campaign Museum Night It will be held in Latvia for the 20th time, inviting guests to visit large and small museums everywhere. Museum night several dozen activities prepared by other institutions related to cultural heritage are also traditionally gathered. The organizers of the festival recommend that you familiarize yourself with the wide offer in time and plan your own Museum Night route. The campaign event program is compiled on the internet portal https://latvia.icom.museum.lv/muzeju-nakts/programma/.

Promotion since 2005 Museum Night takes place every year on one of the Saturdays in May simultaneously in many European countries. The initiator and coordinator of the festival is the French Ministry of Culture. Information about the promotion in European museums can be found on the website www.nuitdesmusees.culture.fr. The event traditionally takes place from Saturday evening at 19.00 until Sunday morning. Entrance to the museums during the campaign is free.