MUSEUM NIGHT FEVER AWARD

MUSEUM NIGHT FEVER 2012 : THE TRIUMPH OF LA BELLE ÉPOQUE

The Museum of Ixelles is the first to win the Museum Night Fever Award!

The very first Museum Night Fever Awards were held this Friday 23 March.

The Jury Award was awarded to the Museum of Ixelles.  The Lassaad Theatre School won the Public Award for their baroque performances in the Rubens room at the Museum of Ancient Art.

Museum Night Fever, the evening opening of Brussels’ museums, was held on 3 March and attracted over 14,000 visitors in 24 museums in the capital.  For this event, the Brussels Museums Council aimed to attract more young people to museums through innovative, fresh and multidisciplinary programming.

The Museum Night Fever Awards, held for the first time this year, are in recognition of the commitment and creativity of young people in partnership with museums.

The Museum of Ixelles was award the 2012 Prix du Jury for their exhibition around Jules Cheret.  The whole museum was alive with the burlesque atmosphere from the turn of the century.  The jury especially enjoyed the original and varied programming, in which styles and disciplines mingled in a creative collaboration with young people in mind: slam poetry, breakdancing and Belle Epoque. 

The pleasant and friendly environment was also positively noted.  “A great surprise of the Museum Night Fever – it showed us the work and time of Jules Cheret in a whole new way!”

The program of the Museum Night Fever at the Museum of Ixelles: arty striptease, silk-screen printing on tissues, slam, break-dance versus classical dance, DJs, theatre, poetry…

A project made possible by: Filles de Minuit, Les Incohérents, Institut Sainte-Marie, Urban Woorden and numerous young volunteers.