On Saturday 18th May 2024, we are celebrating a new edition of The Night of the Museums. This year the museum will echo the theme of International Museum Day: 'Museums, for education and research'.

From 7.00pm to 1.00am: Free of charge visit to the permanent collection and the temporary exhibitions:

• Suzanne Valadon. A modern epic. Discover a freelance artist in Belle Époque Paris! Valadon worked as a model for renowned artists such as Degas, Renoir or Toulouse-Lautrec and, self-taught, she became a very prominent artist at the time, recognised by critics and the public. As she herself said in an interview "I had good teachers...I was my own teacher and I said what I had to say."
• The lost mirror. Jews and “Conversos” in the Middles Ages. In this exhibition you will learn how the image of the other is constructed through our prejudices and way of looking. The exhibition recovers the portrait of Jews and converts conceived by Christians between the 13th and 15th centuries.
• Longaron and Friday Foster. The Unexpected Heroine. In the 1970s, the cartoonist Jordi Longarón (Barcelona, 1933-2019) published cartoons of Friday Foster in American newspapers, an intrepid photographer who became a groundbreaking character, being the first African-American protagonist of comics, an empowered woman beyond the female roles of the time. In the educArt space, the original drawings of the Catalan cartoonist are collected.
• Punctum. Primavera fotogràfica. The Primavera Fotogràfica, or Photographic Spring, was a biennial event, an initiative created by a group of photographers, galleries and cultural centres in Barcelona to promote photography as a means of expression.

From 8.30pm to midnight: Music and animation

• This year, we pay a musical tribute to the era that frames the temporary exhibition dedicated to Suzanne Valadon. We will enliven The Night with the Dances of the Belle Époque, with an orchestra of 14 musicians, the Original SoundTrack Orchestra, who will perform music from the period, characterised by the optimism and popular success of variety shows in France and throughout Europe. Coinciding with the second showing of the Dances of Belle Époque, we will have a Cakewalk* workshop, open to everyone, by the Swing Maniacs.

* The Cakewalk, musically related to Ragtime, is a lively dance that originated in the plantations of the southern United States and spread around the world, reaching Europe around 1900.

          Showings: from 9.00 to 9.40pm; from 10 to 10.40pm with Music and Cakewalk Workshop; and from 11 to 11.30pm

• At 8:30pm, 9:40pm, 10:40pm and 11:30pm, to finish enlivening and filling the museum with music, throughout the night we will have the Marxing Band of the Taller de Músic.

And moreover

Gastronomic offer in the Sala Oval

Don't miss the gastronomic offer and the discounts in the Museum Shop!