Museum Night Fever!

Every year, Brussels has one night where almost all the big museums in Brussels, from the art museum of the "Old Masters" to the Science and Nature Museum are open from 7pm until 1am for all visitors who have pre-ordered a pass for only 8 euros. With this pass, you can enter all of these different museums at any time of the night, and each one has its own unique events and temporary shows and exhibits. For example, in the Old Masters museum, they had contemporary dancers dancing in around the museum in different areas in front of the art, performing their take on the art around them through dance. In the Musical Instrument Museum, they focused on street art with a musical theme and crazy futuristic stuff like emo synth. They had a room where they had a person connected to a bunch of wires which were then connected to a computer and a bunch of machines which read the feelings of the person and made music according to the emotions of the person. There was also an electric guitarist and drummer who were reading the notes on the computer and playing along as well. So cool!

In the Bozar Cinema, they had old movies running of live black and white footage from Brussels and other European cities in the 1900s. And in the Museum of Science and Nature, the Dinosaur Gallery was transformed into a calkwalk of "haut nature", where models showed off clothing designs from students of the Francisco Ferrer fashion school. There was also a changing room where visitors could try on some unique clothing pieces such as scarfs and hats. My friend Sanni and I had a lot of fun with that, as you can tell from the pictures ;P

Musical Instrument Museum:

They had a giant wall of music which everyone could decorate:) 

Graffiti (guy is painting Jimmy Hendrix)

 Old Masters Museum:

Dancing inside a cellophane box...not exactly sure what he is trying to portray here but it was cool:)

At the entrance, everyone was given a red strip of paper with a rubber band attached to each end. You were supposed to wear it over your mouth, which some people actually did...like these kids:) looks quite strange at first but is kind of an intriguing difference.

The dances were on this main floor (entrance area of the museum) and also upstairs in different rooms with the paintings. 

This was my favorite dancer.. I have never seen anything like this. She could make dancing with such a large, heavy object look so delicate and graceful. 

Two dancers portraying a struggle (as you can kind of see in the painting behind them)

Looking from up above

The pianist, whose music echoed throughout the large building. The piano music switched once and a while with some electric guitar, drums and sax.

I had to try out the red strip.. everyone else who wore it just looked so mysterious and added to the atmosphere of the event. Mine only lasted a little while tho, its hard to breath when you have something like that covering your mouth!

Very strange performance which began with a lady in a long red dress crawling out of a cello case and then proceeding to  rub her head against the man's cello like a cat while the man played the cello and sang, very emotionally, in Italian.

Women portraying a big, rowdy royal feast..also quite strange. All around them were very random objects, like fake birds, a plastic (but very real looking) leg, shoes, scarfs, and other body parts made out of plastic.

This guy decided to make a  hat out of a bunch of men's ties.. and sweep the floor with it. (and cuddle up against a very confused by-stander...)

The Science and Nature Museum:

Dinasour Gallery

Fashion show in the gallery!

And..Sanni and I making our own styles and doing a little fashion shoot:)

Who knew a night full of museums could be so crazy and fun! I think the city of Brussels purposely puts together these kind of events in order to attract a younger crowed to their museums. And it's a really great idea! I got to see a lot of museums which I didn't even know existed in Brussels, and see some awesome expos! I have officially turned into a city lover:)