On Saturday, 14th of May, the 8th edition of Museums' Night will take place in Warsaw.The doors of numerous museums, art galleries, artistic studios and cultural centres stay open late offering to view their current exhibitions as well as specially prepared programmes for the night. During this year's Museum Night visitors will also be offered the opportunity to meet Marie Skłodowska-Curie – a resident of Warsaw, a Noble Prize winner, and a citizen of Europe.

Date: 14th of May, Saturday, from 7pm - 1 am

Venue: several museums, galleries, art centers in Warsaw

Tickets: 1 ticket buys you admission to every participating location and the complimentary public transportation

Full program available for download.

Everyone should find something to fit their tastes while perusing the programme prepared by 230 artistic institutions. Apart from exhibitions, the programme includes concerts, meetings with artists, spectacles, film screenings, workshops, night sightseeing walks and many other attractions.

Many artistic enterprises revolving around the figure of the famous Nobel Prize winner and her connections with the city of Warsaw have been prepared for the occasion of the International Year of Chemistry and the Year of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Skłodowska-Curie is the best-known female scientist not only all over Europe but worldwide. Born in Warsaw, she studied in Paris where she later made her discovery of two new elements - polonium and radium. She is the only female scientist in history to have become a double Noble Prize winner. However, she was not only an unusual scientist. When the 1st World War broke out, she actively engaged herself in saving the lives of wounded soldiers. Having organised mobile X-ray machines, she made it possible for thousands of men to avoid amputation of their arms and legs.

Skłodowska was deeply involved in expanding European scientific knowledge. In Paris and Warsaw, she opened innovative Radium Institutions and became the first female professor to teach at the University of Paris (La Sorbonne).

Warsaw has decided to make Maria Skłodowska-Curie the symbol of this year's edition of Museum Night. Promotional posters of the event show...

The date of European Museum Night (14 May) falls on the 105th anniversary of an unprecedented event - Maria Skłodowska-Curie taking the chair of physics at the University of Paris (13 May 1906). By placing a ceremonial decoration
with the dimensions 33 x 36.4m (more than 1200 sq.m.) on the east side of the Palace of Culture and Science, which is in the very heart of Warsaw, we wish to remind everyone that the 39-year-old Warsaw-born Curie was the first woman in the history of the University of Paris to be awarded a chair.

Warsaw Museum Night starts on Saturday, 14 May, at 6 p.m. The programme and information concerning free-of-charge transportation are available on www.um.warszawa.pl/nocmuzeow

The programmes of celebrations concerning the Year of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and the International Year of Chemistry during Warsaw Museum Night include:

10 p.m. - 2 a.m., location: 16 Freta St.
Video foto mapping on the facade of the building of the Maria Skłodowska–Curie Museum

Museum Night city game ”Follow in the footsteps of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and get irradiated with knowledge”

Crumbs – X-ray of the Soul - a spectacle by A3Teatr

9 p.m., location: Krakowskie Przedmieście, in front of Polonia House (Dom Polonii).
Night cycling during Museum Night ”On a Tandem with Maria” – organised by the Warsaw Cyclists’ Society

The Maria Skłodowska–Curie Museum
Permanent exposition and an exhibition by the AMS Poster Gallery ”Skłodowska-Curie was a woman!”
8 – 10 p.m. Scenes of the life of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, and funny presentations of her discoveries and their consequences.

The Steel Forest Gallery, 72 Nowy Świat St., guest appearance in Pałac Staszica.
The happening ”Radiation” by Artur Wąsowski, Krzysztof Skain May 8.30 p.m. A vernissage of ”Autographs” exhibition, and ”Maria – 2011” a jewellery exhibition by Jacek Ostrowski.

The Heavy Ion Laboratory at the University of Warsaw, 5A Pasteur St.
Viewing of the only heavy ion accelerator in Poland;

Royal Baths Museum, 1 Agrykola St.
6 – 10 p.m. educational workshops for children aged 5-10 ”Balloon travel to the world of science” - games connected with the celebration of the Year of Maria Skłodowska-Curie