Night at the museum

“Night at the Museum” is an annual event dedicated to International Museum Day, in which many cultural institutions participate in order to increase the interest of a wide audience, especially young people, in museums.
The first Night at the Museum took place in 1997 in Berlin. The neighboring countries liked the idea, and the following year, museums in many European countries organized an open night. Currently, the cultural event is taking place in more than 150 countries around the world.
The “Night at the Museum” campaign is a significant event in the cultural life of Almaty. In this regard, on May 18, 2022, the Association of Almaty Museums held large-scale cultural and entertainment events dedicated to the “Night at the Museum” campaign.
The international event “Night at the Museum” is a real treat for fans of high art! This is a holiday shrouded in mystery, filled with music and unusual meetings, all kinds of entertainment and vivid impressions. And of course, the event is an event that brings together museums and makes art a little closer to the audience.
Seven museums of the “Association of Almaty Museums” took part in the campaign: the Almaty Museum, the D.A. Kunayev Museum, the N.Tlendiev Memorial Museum, and the S. Mukanova and G. Musrepov, Museum of Folk Musical Instruments named after A. Ihlasa, Traditional Music Multimedia Center and the A. Baitursynova.
The “Living Museum” procession will be special, where volunteers and museum staff will conduct theatrical tours of the Association's museums, dressed in costumes corresponding to the era and themes. In the halls of the Almaty Museum, characters from different eras are “animated”, who showed the life and culture of their time. Visitors will have the opportunity to try working in hand mills, see the Kazakh tradition of “besikke salu” and many other interactive programs.
At the Museum of Musical Instruments named after M. Ihlasa will offer visitors excursions and an entertainment program for guests, and an exhibition and fair for musical instrument makers. The “Gasyrlar Uni” gala concert and the screening of the film “Ult Rukhaniyatyn Zhasaushylar” were also held.
In addition to the “living museum”, a meeting was held at the D.A. Kunayev Museum on the topic “Conversations about Dimash Akhmedovich...”, where visitors had the opportunity to talk with D.A. Kunayev's relatives over a cup of tea and learn unknown facts about him.
In the memorial museum of N. Tlendiev hosted a concert by the State Academic Folklore and Ethnographic Orchestra named after A. N.Tlendiyev's “Otyrar Sazy”, also took tours of the museum halls and the intellectual game “Guess the Melody”.
In the literary and memorial museum complex, S. Mukanova and G. Musrepov showed the first Kazakh sound film “Amangeldy” (Lenfilm, 1938, directed by M. Levin, screenplay — G. Musrepov, B. Maylin, Vs. Ivanov) and the documentary “Classic Keshikken Mahabbata” (“Late Love Classics”) about the love of G. Musrepova and actress Raisa Mukhamedyarova.
A meeting was held at the Akhmet Baitursynuly House-Museum with the cast and crew of the film “Ult Ustazy” on the topic “Conversations about the Great Enlightener”.

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