Museum Night in Poreč on Friday, January 27

This year’s 18th Museum Night will be held on Friday, January 27, under the theme “Museums Are Important”.

This year’s Museum Night event in Poreč will be marked by a diverse program that includes expert walking tour at the historic town center, a ceramic workshop for children, lectures, readings of drama classics, and the central part of the program refers to the presentation of new acquisitions from the legacy of the Polesini family and conversations with the last descendant of the family. As of this year, the museum is richer for about a hundred museum objects that make up the exceptional artistic, photographic and book-documentary legacy of the Polesini family. This valuable legacy documents the history of one of the most important Istrian noble families, but also the life of Poreč and Poreč surroundings (Poreština) from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 20th century.

The event will take place in the Istrian Assembly Hall (Istarska sabornica) (M. Laginje 6 Street), while the children’s workshop, with prior notice, will take place in the museum’s ceramics workshop (Sv. Mauro 10 Street).

The walking tour at historic town center with Davor Munda will take place at 6 pm and last an hour and a half.

About the Museum Night

Museum Night (Noć muzeja) is an annual event in Croatia. During one night in the year (usually on the last Friday in January), the entrance fee to most of the museums in Croatia is waived. Museum Night was first held in December 2005, with only six museums from Zagreb area participating, drawing 10,000 visitors. The event evolved to include museums in the rest of Croatia in the following years, with over 200 museums participating. In 2014, there were 360,000 museum-goers during the Museum Night, with 800 performances held. – from Wikipedia