Museums, galleries educating visitors in Free Art Day campaign
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
21.04.2018 10:04
Ninety museums and galleries across Poland will show only five artworks during a campaign on Saturday called Free Art Day which aims to encourage a deeper contemplation of art.
Some of the exhibits people rush past at the National Museum in Warsaw. Photo: Adrian Grycuk/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 pl)
The campaign addresses the fact that many museum-goers feel they should see everything in an exhibition and thus spend an average of only eight seconds viewing any one item.
The galleries and museums participating in Free Art Day hope to shift visitors' focus from the amount of art they see to the quality of the experience of going to an art show, the event's organiser Zuzanna Stańska said.
Sylwia Bielicka of the National Museum in Warsaw said volunteers selected the five items that the museum would be showing, while the Royal Castle in Poland is expected to have one staff member assigned to each of its exhibits to encourage visitors to be more reflexive and inquisitive.
The campaign starts at midday. A list of participating venues can be found at www.www.dzienwolnejsztuki.pl. (vb)
Source: IAR