A hundred and fifty museums in more than 60 towns across Croatia will open their doors to visitors between 6 pm and midnight on January 28 for the 7th Museum Night, the event's organisers said on Wednesday, calling on members of the public to visit museums in large numbers.
Last year, 278,000 people visited museums throughout the country free of charge for the 6th Museum Night.
Admission to all museums will be free and members of the public will be able to see attractive exhibitions and attend lectures, performances, recitals and concerts, the president of the Croatian Museum Association, Dubravka Osrecki Jakelic, told a news conference.
This year's Museum Night is dedicated to island museums - places of culture which are very much alive during the summer and which have few visitors in the winter.
The head of the Culture Centre on the island of Brac, Jasna Damjanovic, said various events would be staged in three museums on that island, notably in Skrip, where the Museum of the Island of Brac is located.
Osrecki Jakelic recalled that the Museum Night was first held in 2005, when six museums in Zagreb opened their doors to visitors free of charge. There were 10,000 visitors in the first year of the event.
In 2010, 30 towns and 70 museums took part in the Museum Night, and there were more than 278,000 visitors.
Trams and buses will be transporting museum visitors in Zagreb along the Museum Night route free of charge.
