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The May Festival continues to add much more adept in this case with one of his latest betting, The Night of Museums, which this year celebrates its second edition, in which thousands of people gathered at dawn on Saturday to Sunday, at the gates of the major art centers of the city, which remained open with free admission.
In the five hours they were open nine museums and museum spaces incorporated into The Night of the Museums of Cartagena there were a total of 26,857 entries, surpasses all expectations (last year, first in which organized this initiative were 5 spaces and 15,000 visits).
The Municipal Archaeological Museum, Roman Theatre, the Arqua and Muram, offering not only art but also multiplying the options for all tastes, were surrounded by interesting performances of dance, music and theater to the delight of Cartagena and visitors circulating in Cartagena, success also spread to bars and restaurants.
It also remained open the Naval Museum and interpretation center Cartagena Puerto de Culturas (Punic Wall, Civil War refugees), highlighting the important choice of the city's public spaces as settings for the performances scheduled in May Much More: The Plaza the former CIM, the Wall of Charles III or King's Square.
Another activity for Much More Mayo helped people fill the Town Hall Square was the Silent Party, in which young people could enjoy your favorite music and loud, but not bothering anyone, a point for this festival youth.
The success of all this action, organized by the Youth Council, have contributed Mall Merchants Association Open, Hostec (Employers Association of Hotels and Tourist Accommodations in Cartagena and its region) and Alsa Group, a company that manages the urban transport service, which extended the bus schedule, in addition to the points of information and the role of young volunteers.
The purpose for which the Museum Night was conceived, as is attracting new audiences, especially young people to museums, has been fully met in Cartagena, as another of the notes outstanding was the presence of an intergenerational audience, which allowed seen together in the same acts to entire families, seniors and youth, but at no time would raise problems.
THE NIGHT OF THE MUSEUMS IN FIGURES
The ratio of visits to each area is as follows:
- Museo del Teatro Romano: 5,000 visits (NBW)
- National Museum of Underwater Archaeology.
ARQUA: 4,482 visits (controlled)
- Municipal Archaeological Museum: 3,525 visits (controlled)
- Naval Museum: 3,000 visits (estimated)
- New head of the Naval Museum: 3,000 visits (estimated)
- Shelters, Civil War Museum: 3,000 entries (controlled)
- Interpretation Centre of the Punic Wall: 1,500 (controlled)
- Regional Museum of Modern Art.
Muram: 1,850 (controlled)
- Museum of Military History: 1,500 (estimated)
It should be noted that some museums reached the limit of assistance available to them in that time span, making it difficult to improve their own figures, which are only comparable to those of the great museums of the country.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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