“Museum Night” is a European wide event sponsored by the Council of Europe, UNESCO and ICOM, and it is held every year in mid May.
It is known that in the neighboring Croatia, “Museum Night” has become one of the most important cultural events of the year, eagerly awaited by the audience and welcomed with a great joy every year. This event is vigilantly planned by the participating museums while being generously subsidized by the State Ministry of Culture and the City/County Department of Culture.
In B&H, there are no such initiatives at the state or the city level and it’s up to the museums and galleries themselves to pull together a modest yet symbolic celebration of this great and otherwise important European cultural event.
The underlining premise behind the participation in this event is in its a great significance not only for the Art Gallery as an institution, but also for the image of Bosnia Herzegovina as a whole.