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This year the Museum night event will be held in Armenia on May 21. The event is organized by the International Council of Museum (ICOM) within the International Museum Day celebrations.
As The theme of 2016 International Museum Day will be “Museums and Cultural Landscapes ICOM informs on its official website.  Organized every year since 1977 around 18 May, the events and activities planned to celebrate International Museum Day can last a day, a weekend or a whole week. The objective of International Museum Day is to raise awareness of the fact that, “Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”

Participation in International Museum Day is growing among museums all over the world. In 2015, more than 35,000 museums participated in the event in some 145 countries.

The Museum Night project was launched in 2005 under the sponsorship of ICOM UNESCO and Council of Europe.

As the Ministry of Culture of Armenia informs, this year a total of 112 museums in Armenia will join the celebration and entrance to the Armenian participant museums will be free until 18:00 on May 21. On the occasion of the International Museum Day visitors may attend the museums free of charge on May 18 as well.