Many countries around the world are celebrating the International Museum Day. Lebanon, for example, has announced that all the museums will be open for the public for free today.
Louvre Museum (France)
International Museum Day has been organized by the International Council of Museums ever since the year 1977.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain)
The theme of 2016 International Museum Day will be Museums and Cultural Landscapes, which is also the theme of the General Conference, to be held in Milan, Italy from 3 to 9 July 2016.
Vatican Museum (Italy/Rome)
The objective of International Museum Day, however, is to raise awareness of the fact that, “Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”
Surreal art in the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.
Participation in International Museum Day is growing among museums all over the world. In 2015, more than 35,000 museums participated in the event in some 145 countries.
National Museum of Beirut
You can find the activities in your country marking this day, on the interactive map provided by International Council of Museums’ website.
Museum of Marrakesh (Morocco)
Culture affects our daily lives and broadens our view about life. When we know the history and the artistic side of things or the ancient cultures that existed before ours, perhaps, we see life from a different angle.
Enjoy our video, which brings you the Dali Museum, the Louvre museum, the Birmingham Museum, and the National Museum of Beirut.
The Dali Museum located in the hometown of the Artist Salvador Dali in Catalonia, Spain, is “theatrical”, as the surreal artist describes it.
The entire space is a stage at the Dalí Museum Theatre, Figueres. (Photo credit: stopmangohome).
“I want my museum to be a single block, a labyrinth, a great surrealist object. It will be totally theatrical museum. The people who come to see it will leave with the sensation of having had a theatrical dream”, Salvador Dali has said.
If you admire fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewelry, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history, then you have to visit the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in Birmingham, England.
Birmingham Museum (England).
In Lebanon however, you will find different kinds of museums as well, from the national museum that hold antiquities and great history, to other scientific, and marine life museums.
