The European Night of Museums is back. The event born in 2004, on the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture, with the patronage of UNESCO, the Council of Europe and ICOM, takes place simultaneously in all the countries of the European Union . It aims to spread knowledge of Europe's cultural heritage and highlight its common denominators.
The Italian Ministry of Culture participates in this event, of absolute social importance, with the evening opening of state museums and places of culture at the symbolic cost of 1 euro. Even the National Museums of Cagliari, for the European Night of Museums, tomorrow, Saturday 10 May, will be accessible from 8pm to 11pm (ticket office closing at 10pm) with a ticket, costing 1 euro (except for ordinary free tickets).
On this occasion, the recently completed restoration of the Gate of the former Royal Arsenale, in today's Citadel of Museums, will be presented to the city, with the switching on of the new monumental lighting system of the facade. Light is assigned the task of enhancing the nineteenth-century architecture and the complex iconographic apparatus designed by Count Boyl in 1825 and brought back to its ancient splendor by restoration. With the conclusion of the intervention, the National Museums, symbolically and concretely, open up even more to the city with the redevelopment of the urban spaces of Piazza Arsenale to subsequently continue with the restoration of Porta Cristina.
Tomorrow's extraordinary opening will be enriched by the presentation of a card or an annual subscription, at a low cost, as in the great European museums, with which you can enter the Archaeological Museum, the National Art Gallery and the Spazio San Pancrazio for twelve months. . This includes events and initiatives that national museums frequently organize with other institutions to raise awareness of the Institute's activities and promote knowledge of the cultural, material and immaterial heritage, including the performing arts.
in the new exhibition which has regained accessibility and particularly evocative atmospheres, the art historian Marco Antonio Scanu and the cultural anthropologist Susanna Paulis will illustrate, respectively, the new exhibition of the Altarpieces of San Francesco di Stampace and Material culture of an ethnographic scope.
