The queues that formed this Saturday at the entrances to many museums were a clear indication that the attendance figures at the Night of the Museums were going to be high. Not even the bridge, which this year coincided with this popular event, has reduced the number of visitors, which in recent editions has been around 100,000 visitors, as Jaume Muñoz, director of Memory, History and Heritage of the Institute of Culture. This time, there were 113,259 people who came to one of the 87 spaces that opened their doors for free.
The Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) celebrates the data, which it describes as “very remarkable”. And even more so, if you take into account that, in addition to the fact that many people were out of the city on vacation, the event also coincided with International Museum Day, something that had not happened for five years and which made the majority of the equipment were already free throughout the day.
Between 7:00 p.m. yesterday Saturday and 1:00 a.m., a large part of the more than 170 prepared activities took place, among which workshops, videomappings and concerts of all kinds stood out, such as the short sessions offered by the CaixaForum; or the musical pieces on violin and piano, by the duo AIDAN at the Museu d’Art Prohibit, which at some point in their history were prohibited or censored, whether for political, religious or sexual reasons.
This last center was one of the four new additions, along with the Martorell Exhibition Centre, the Terra Museum and the Roman wall preserved inside the Sínia Occupational Centre. The evening was held without incident, beyond the usual queues, which thinned out as the night progressed.
The museums that received the most visitors were the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC), with 10,511; the Museum of History of Barcelona (MUHBA), with 8,653 visits in all its locations; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), with 6,843; Cosmocaixa, with 4,875; the L’Hospitalet Museum, 4,235, and the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), with 4,106.
They are followed by the Ethnological and World Cultures Museum, with 4,103 visitors at its headquarters on Montcada Street in Barcelona; the Badalona Museum (4,062) and the Born Center of Culture and Memory (3,259).
