Spend a night at the museum this weekend

(MSS) For the thirteenth year, museums in the capital stay open til late for the annual “Nuit des Musées”, or Museum Night, which takes place on October 12.

This year's theme is literature, and writers, authors and editors will take visitors on museum tours with readings and performances. The tours, trips between fiction and reality, start once every hour.

The museums taking part include Villa Vauban, Musée d'histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Musée national d'histoire naturelle, Musée Dräi Eechelen, Mudam and Casino Luxembourg.

Free shuttles will be running, taking you from one museum to the other, and books in Luxembourgish, French and German will be available for passengers. If you are lucky, you might catch a ride with one of the three limousines that will assist the shuttles.

Each museum will have a culinary surprise prepared for visitors, and at midnight a series of special guests from the world of books will reveal their “coup de coeur”, or favourite piece, from the collections.

Just in time for the Museum Night several museums, including Mudam, Musée Dräi Eechelen, Villa Vauban and Casino Luxembourg, have opened new exhibitions, from animals in art to contemporary Korean sculpture and historic fortress maps.

Apart from Casino, which will stay open until 3am, all the museums close at 1am.

Tickets for the event, if bought pre-sale, cost 12 euros for adults and 8 euros for children and students, and are on sale from all the participating museums and the Luxembourg City central tourist office on Place Guillaume II.

If bought on the night itself, they cost 15 euros and 10 euros respectively.

For more information and a full programme visit nuits-des-musées.lu