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European Night of Museums gathered more than two million visitors in France

Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication de France,
22 May 2016, France

For its 12th edition, the European Night of Museums gathered more than two million visitors in France this Saturday, May 21, 2016.

Audrey Azoulay, Minister of Culture and Communication, welcomed the success in France and Europe in the 12 th edition of the European Night of Museums.

This year, nearly 3,000 museums in Europe have participated in this event, free opening their doors to an increasingly curious audience.

Time for a special evening, visitors were able to discover other museums approach at night and through moer than 3000 animations, offering a privileged context for different tours: music, theater, literature, cinema or gastronomy. All arts came together to allow the public to invest the museum and to appropriate it.

One night in a growing interaction with social networks

In 2016, the European Night of Museums is shared increasingly on social networks through their shots heart, advice or shared photo, visitors have become real protagonists of the event by offering a special resonance.The Twitter account @NuitdesMusees has recorded more of10 000tweets.

This year, a new projetdigitala born: "THE NIGHT (magination)." Museums have chosen in their collections of works evoking the night according to different themes: mystery, magic, dream, fantasy, sleep, bestiary, supernatural darkness illusions. All works have been published on social networks of the Night and users invited to an original caption on their favorite work. These are the total176musées who participated.

In Paris and Île-de-France :

The Louvre Museum: 11 574visiteurs
The musée du quai Branly: 10 026visiteurs
The Pompidou Centre: 16 638visiteurs
Gustave Moreau Museum: 1096 visitors
The Orsay Museum: 12 016visiteurs
The muséenational Orangerie: 2524visiteurs
The exhibition at the Grand Palais: 10 438visiteurs
The Army Museum: 9005 visitors
The large deposits and the Museum of Archivesnationales 6 296visiteurs
The National Museum of Arts and Crafts: 2 550visiteurs
The Carnavalet Museum: 6 105visiteurs
The museum Jean-Jacques Henner: 1450 visitors for a first participation
The Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris: 3 400visiteurs
The National Museum of Asian Arts, Guimet: 2901 visitors
The Palais Galliera museum of fashion in Paris Laville 1401 visitors
The Petit Palais museum: 3 365visiteurs
The National Eugène Delacroix Museum: 700 visitors
The museum PicassoParis: 3926visiteurs
The Museum of the Monnaie de Paris 1 148visiteurs
The Museum of Man: 4803 visitors for a first participation
The Museum of Hunting and Nature: 2 335visiteurs
Palace of Fine Arts National High -School of Fine Arts of Paris: 2573 visitors
The Museum of dumondearabe Institute: 5 600visiteurs
The National Museum of the Middle Ages - Cluny: 1 436visiteurs
The Philharmonie2, music museum: 900 visitors
The Palace of the Golden Gate - Museum of History of Immigration: 1 300visiteurs
LeChateau Fontainebleau 2 212visiteurs
The National Museum of the Renaissance, àÉcouen 418 visitors
The MACVAL 1 012visiteurs
The castle of Champs-sur-Marne: 7200 visitors
The Palace of Compiegne: 1349 visitors
The National Estate of Versailles: 10 000 visitors
The Rodin Museum, Meudon: 1632 visitors

In areas : attendance figures for museums

The Musée des Augustins in Toulouse: 7 947visiteurs
The Louvre-Lens museum: 2796 visitors
The Museum of Fine Arts in Reims: 1364 visitors
The National Museum of the Chateau de Pau: 1572 visitors
The Toulouse Lautrec Museum in Albi: 2014 visitors
The CAPC in Bordeaux: 2706 visitors
The museum of Toulouse Histoirenaturelle: 9 530visiteurs
The Confluence Museum in Lyon 5 985visiteurs
The Gallo-Roman Museum in Fourvière: 2385 visitors
MuCEM in Marseille 4 900visiteurs
The Museum of Fine Arts in Bordeaux: 3627 visitors
The Museum of Brittany, Rennes 2 600visiteurs
La Piscine de Roubaix: 4 422visiteurs
The Electropolis museum in Mulhouse: 3571 visitors
The Musée Fabre in Montpellier: 3 578visiteurs
The Saint-Raymond museum in Toulouse: 3276 visitors
The Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon 4 070visiteurs
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon: 1746 visitors
The Granet Museum in Aix-en-Provence: 2 240visiteurs
The National Museums of XX th siècledes Alpes-Maritimes: 883 visitors
The Petit Palais museum in Avignon 1256 visitors
The Centre Pompidou-Metz 3 257visiteurs
The Museum of Pont-Aven 926 visitors for a first participation
Unterlinden Museum in Colmar: 2618 visitors for a first participation

Attendance figures by city

Night mysteries in Mulhouse: 28 500visiteurs
The museums of Strasbourg: 21 974visiteurs
The museums of Nancy: 6389 visitors
The museums in Bourges: 2488 visitors
The museums of Troyes 4 623visiteurs

Some examples in Europe

In Spain, the Museo de Valladolid: 1853 visitors and 83 participating sites in Barcelona have collected 191,701 visitors
In Moldova, The National Museum of History of Moldova: 18 302 visitors
In Ukraine, the regional museum of Vinnitsa: 2850 visitors and the Sevastopol art museum of Mr. Kroshitsky: 3223 visitors
In Croatia, the Mimara Museum in Zagreb: 680 visitors
In Armenia, The Gallery of Mariam and Eranuhi Aslamazyan Sister: 2128 visitors
Museums in Belgrade: 21 000 visitors