The Long Night of Museums 2025 at the University of Wrocław
On May 17th, we invite you to visit some of the University of Wrocław facilities, which open their doors to host the Long Night of Museums. The academicians of Wrocław, under the auspices of the Academic Museums Association, have also prepared an exterior exhibition, Wrocław na szlaku dziedzictwa akademickiego (eng. ‘Wrocław on the Trail of Academic Heritage’), which will open on May 13th at 13:00. However, it will be visible the day before at ul. Kuźnicza. Certainly, this exhibition might be an inspiration for those who are interested in spending the Night of the Museums in the academic institutions of Wrocław.
We encourage you to acquaint yourself with the abovementioned list of attractions waiting for explorers in the University of Wrocław.
There is a free admission to the events, if not stated otherwise.
Museum of the University of Wrocław
We invite you to visit our display halls in the main building of the University. The visitors will be able to see the permanent exhibition and the new temporary exhibition, ‘Entangled. The late out-of-Europe ethnographic collection of the University of Wrocław’. After this display, in specified hours, two curator guidings will take place. Additionally, we invite you to two city walks: ‘Unknown heritage of Wrocław—colonial collections’.
‘Entangled. The late out-of-Europe ethnographic collection of the University of Wrocław’
18:00 – 24:00: sightseeing of the display halls of the University of Wrocław
19:00 and 21:00: curator guiding on the temporary exhibition
‘Unknown heritage of Wrocław – colonial collections’
18:00 – 20:00 and 20:00 – 22:00: city walks
Signing up for adults for the guiding of the temporary exhibition (30 people limit) and for the city walks (20 people limit) will take place from May 6th to May 14th on muzeum@uwr.edu.pl.
There will be no possibility of being admitted only to the sightseeing of display halls, on which a regular queue applies.
The Long Night of Museums 2025 at the Museum of the University of Wrocław—information on the website wroclaw.pl.
The information on the website of the Museum of the University of Wrocław:
Museum of Natural History
During the Long Night of Museums, 18:00–23:00, the visitors will have the opportunity to see the exhibitions:
– The World of Animals
– Insects and Human
– The World of Plants
The signing up applies.
The 100-person groups will be admitted hourly from 18:00 to 22:00.
The reservations should be sent to rezerwacje.muz.przyr@uwr.edu.pl from May 8th to May 15th.
The Long Night of Museums 2025 at the Museum of Natural History (University of Wrocław)—information on the website wroclaw.pl
The Long Night of Museums at the Museum of Natural History—the event on Facebook
Mineralogical Museum (ul. W. Cybulskiego 30)
During this year’s Long Night of Museums in the Mineralogical Museum, we invite you to sightsee the permanent exhibitions and to participate in the ongoing events.
There will be exhibitions such as:
– The Minerals of the World
– The Minerals of Poland
Additionally, collaborating with the Polish Association of the Friends of the Earth Science, will be arranged:
– Mini-collector-exchange where it will be possible to view and purchase minerals, rocks, fossils, and meteorites.
– The show of cutting agates and other decorative stones.
The hours of the event:
– sightseeing of the exhibitions: 12:00 – 23:00
– exchange and the show of cutting agates: 12:00 – 20:00
Free admission, without the necessity to sign up.
The Long Night of Museums 2025 in the Mineralogical Museum ul. W. Cybulskiego – information on the website wroclaw.pl
Mineralogical Museum (ul. Kuźnicza 22)
The Unit of the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Wrocław
During this year’s Night of the Museums, we invite you to visit the fascinating expositions presenting the diversity of the minerals and gemstones in the unit of the Mineralogical Museum at ul. Kuźnicza.
There will be exhibitions such as:
– The Minerals of Poland
– The decorative stones and gemstones
– The Agates of the Kaczawskie Mountains
– The Minerals of the Strzegom pegmatites
– Meteorites
– The Minerals of Piława Górna pegmatites
– The Minerals of the East Bavaria
– The Collection of Douglas Robert Harman
– From the stone to the picture, that is the matter of mineral pigments
The exhibitions are open from 12:00 to 23:00.
Free admission, without the necessity to sign up.
The Long Night of Museums 2025 in the Unit of the Mineralogical Museum at ul. Kuźnicza – information on the website wroclaw.pl.
Geological Museum
Apart from the permanent and temporary exhibitions (description on the website of the museum), on the occasion of the Night of the Museums, we have also prepared an additional programme for children. These are ‘My own copy of fossils’ workshops, during which our youngest guests will be able to create gypseous copies of fossils. Such cast parts will be an amazing souvenir from the visit to the Museum.
Signing up for the workshops for children will hold for from May 14th to May 16th 2025 and will be only acknowledged by calling a number: 713759327.
The schedule of ‘My own copy of fossils’ workshops:
14:00 – 14:50
15:00 – 15:50
16:00 – 16:50
17:00 – 17:50
18:00 – 18:50
19:00 – 19:50
The Long Night of Museums 2025 at the Geological Museum – information on the website wroclaw.pl
The ‘Wrocław on the trail of academic heritage’ exterior exhibition
The exhibition ‘The Trail of the Academic Heritage of Wrocław’ will be prepared by fifteen academic units of Wrocław specifically for this year’s Night of the Museums under the auspices of the Academic Museums Association. We invite you to the exhibition opening on May 13th (Tuesday) at 13:00 at ul. Kuźnicza (more or less opposite the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Wrocław).
The exhibition will be open on location from May 12th to May 30th 2025.
The information is on the website of the Academic Museums Association.
Translated by Maja Zaucha (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
Added by: S.F.
Date of publication: 09.05.2025
