17.05.2014 - 17.05.2014

Night of Museum at the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre

We live in a world that can be described by four dimensions, three of them describe the space and they are: length, width and height, while the fourth dimension is time. Space and time are closely related and form a so-called space-time, which is a set of events occurring in a particular place and time.

Time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, and it seems to us that time passes uniformly everywhere. In fact time is relative and dependent on space.
Spacetime is also the universe surrounding us. Before the Big Bang spacetime as we know has not existed. How was it born ?

This year's Night of Museums in the Old Town Hall and St. John International Culture Center will be devoted to space-time. We will offer you a journey into the past, experimenting with time, as well as discovering the space. And both the architectural and perceived as something limitless, incomprehensible, cosmic ... We will also show the space that have not happened remaining only in the realm of the imagination.

The spirit of Johannes Hevelius will take care over our actions

Program

The alchemy of disappearing-colorful experiments

We invite you to a series of demonstrations of  "clock" chemical reactions. Together with chemists from Gdansk University of Technology  we will participate in experiments and observe the time course of the processes occurring in them.

Time: 18.00-21.00, at intervals of 20 min.

Place: stand at the entrance to the Old Town Hall

Led by Student Section Branch of Polish Chemical Society "Hybrid"

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Gdańsk which has not happened: pre-premiere exhibition

In Gdansk many architectural and urban projects remained only in the realm of visions and dreams of creators and have never been completed. The exhibition will display the most interesting projects created from the late eighteenth century to the present day. We also invite you to the opening of the exhibition, which will take place during "Baltic Festival of Science!"

Time: 18:00-20:00

Place: Old Town Hall

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Musical journey through time and space

The largest dilemma for composers is the fact that the song could go on forever. That is why the time is such an important limitation. How has this relation to time changed over ages ? Time in music, or the musical journey through the ages in 2014, which was announced the "International Year of Viola"  with performances by students of the viola professor. I. Albrecht and assistant Christopher Tymendorfa

Presentation I - solo works of Bach and Reger
Presentation II - Haydn duets
Presentation III - chamber works (on violas ensemble)

Time: 19.30, 21.00, 22.00

Place: Old Town Hall and the open-air stage in front of City Hall

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Movie space

The projection of  a biographic movie "Johannes Hevelius Dantiscanus", awarded the Silver Dragon at CISESEP International Film Festival, directed by M. Juszczakiewicz, produced by Gdańsk Foundation ( Fundacja Gdańska)

Time: 19:00-movie presentation, after the projection, comments from the director

Place: Old Town Hall

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Let's create a constellation

We will built together the structure of the sky, and everyone will be able to put  a self-made star on it. The installation will become an interesting element in the space around the statue of Johannes Hevelius.

Preparation and realization: Urban and Architectural Brigade, Faculty of Architecture University of Gdansk.

Time: 19.00 - 23.00

Place: Old Town Hall and the space around the statue of Johannes  Hevelius

Moderator: Urban and Architectural Brigade (BUA: ) Department of Architecture of Technical University of Gdańsk

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St. John's International Culture Center Center -  history and present

Slideshow presentation on the history of St. John's  church: the war devastations, the restoration and adaptation of the church in 2009-2012. Guided tours around the church with the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre employee, sharing the story of finding and restoring the original polychromes, the return of the historic equipment and the adaptation of the building. This tours will let you see the places inaccessible to  every day visitors - entrance to the tower with the clock-bell where the bell from 1543.

Time: 19.00 - 24.00

Place: Centre St. John

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Turmmusik - traveling concert of early tower music

The team "Tubicinatores Gedanenses"- baroque trumpets experts: Paul Hulisz, Peter Kowalkowski, Wojciech Brzozowski and Emil Mischka together with carillonistką Monika Kazmierczak undertake the itinerant concert of tower trumpeters, referred to as TURMMUSIK. This historic track ( Let's  face it, it is an exercise, considering the number of steps to the top of the towers that trumpeters must take), will include presentations of the towers:

St. Catherine's Church - h. 20.30
St. John's Church.  - h. 21.30
Old Town Hall - h. 22.30

TURMMUSIK is a continuation of events "Schopenhauer was a woman" which will take place the day before at the St. John's Center ( At: 20:00)

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Organizer: The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdańsk
Partners: Chemistry Society from Gdańsk "Hybryda", Urban and Architectural Brigade, Department of Architecture of Gdańsk Technical University.