During this year’s The Night of Museums, join us for the exciting experience of the Sound Gallery. The NFM space will be filled with various concerts, mini-concerts, and installations located in unusual corners of the venue – including those not normally accessible to you.
But what is the Sound Gallery? Although the word “gallery” usually refers us to the visual sphere and brings to mind a museum space, in this case, the starting point is the experience of sound – quickly expanding to include additional cognitive channels. This project aligns with the idea of this year’s Musica Polonica Nova – THE SENSES festival, in which the perception of music transcends its traditional framework and becomes a multidimensional experience.
We typically experience music in the context of a concert, governed by specific conventions and clearly defined roles. In the Sound Gallery, these patterns are relaxed. You will decide about the level of engagement – how much time you want to devote to an activity, how deeply you explore it, and when you move on. Listening will become one of many possible forms of participation: watching, movement, proximity or distance, as well as the subtle relationships between visual, tactile, and spatial stimuli, which can be equally important.
The event programme includes concerts, mini-concerts, and installations that use the NFM’s architecture in various ways as a field of experience. Here, it serves not merely as a backdrop, but as an active co-creator of events: it guides, limits, opens, and transforms perception. In this sense, the Sound Gallery remains in close dialogue with the idea of a synthesis of the arts – the interpenetration of sound, image, light, movement, and the presence of the human body.
A stroll through the building will give you an opportunity to encounter a variety of projects – from musical forms to audiovisual and performative activities. Some will invite focus and analytical close-up, while others will play with distance, dispersion, or immersion, engaging the entire spectrum of the senses. This is a unique opportunity to experience the NFM in a new way: as an open, multidimensional space that can be explored and interpreted at your own pace – not just by listening.
Join us!
During the Sound Gallery, organised as part of the Night of Museums, we invite you to two special events: a concert featuring the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic conducted by Geoffrey Paterson and audio lectures on acoustics and the NFM venue.
Light // Shadow // Light and Shadow
NFM, ORLEN Main Hall
Part I 6 pm–6.25 pm
Part II 6.25 pm–7 pm
Part III 7.30 pm–7.50 pm
Free tickets guarantee a seat on the balconies during one of the three concert segments. The segments are independent of each other, and visitors can choose the one they are most interested in. Tickets can be collected at the NFM Box Office on May 15 from 11 am to 8 pm (with an intermission between 3 pm and 3.30 pm) or on May 16 from 5 pm. Space is limited – one ticket per person is allowed for each part of the event.
Please arrive on time. Latecomers may be refused entry.
Audio Lectures on Acoustics and the NFM
NFM, ORLEN Main Hall, 1st Balcony
From 8.30 pm to 10 pm, fifteen-minute audio lectures on the NFM and the venue’s acoustics will be held. No registration is required – the maximum number of visitors per session is around two hundred.