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!