We have our LUWr, the Long Night of Museums at the University of Wrocław!
This Saturday, 18 May, we encourage you to visit one of the museum centres of the University of Wrocław! All our museums will be open on this day, and the Botanical Garden has organised a special themed tour!
The Museum of the University of Wrocław will open to the public a series of exhibition rooms located on the ground floor of the University’s main building. In these spaces visitors will be able to see a permanent exhibition on the history of the university and a temporary exhibition on academic costume and colour. On Long Night of Museums, visitors will be admitted in groups of 50 every half-hour between 6 and midnight.
The Botanical Garden of the University of Wrocław has decided to take part in the Long Night of Museums event for the third time. As in previous years, visitors will be taken on an amazing botanical journey. This year, we will follow the trail of the greatest discoveries related to the world of plants.
Anyone wishing to have a glimpse of the largest fish that ever swam in the Oder, or to meet extinct or endangered animal species eye to eye, is invited to respond during this wonderful celebration of the Natural History Museum at the University of Wrocław! Natural history doesn’t sleep on 18 May, so there will be an opportunity to see one of the most magnificent exhibits – the skeleton of a fin whale!
The Kazimierz Maślankiewicz Mineralogical Museum will also not be idle during the Long Night of Museums! In addition to visiting the two buildings that belong to this facility or listening to experts, visitors will have the opportunity to take part in agate-cutting demonstrations and a mineral exchange! On 18 May, visitors can take a tour between 12 noon and 11 p.m. at both ul. Kuźnicza and ul. Cybulskiego!
On the occasion of the festivities, the Henryk Teisseyre Geological Museum has prepared workshops aimed at families, especially the youngest visitors. There will be an opportunity to make a copy of the fossil yourself and then find the original in the exhibition! The “Zrób sobie amonita” (‘Make your own ammonite’) activities will begin at each full hour. The museum will be open to the public from 2pm to 11pm on this special day!
The students of Material Cultural Heritage invite anyone wishing to become professionally involved in culture and museology to join their field of study!
On 17 and 18 May, on the premises of the Centre for Remembrance and Future, Zajezdnia History Centre at ul. Grabiszyńska 184 in Wrocław, it will be possible to take part in the educational project ESCAPETRUCK. Wrocław is this time the first city on the route of this project, which in an innovative way draws attention to the issue of human trafficking, in particular forced labour and sexual exploitation. On Long Night of Museums the exhibition will be open until midnight details: https://uwr.edu.pl/en/is-it-possible-to-escape-the-horrors-of-human-trafficking/
