‘The White Night Festival’ offers free visits to museums, art galleries, and other cultural institutions. It was launched in 2002 and the concept of the festival came from ‘Jean Blaise’, who founded the ‘Research Center for Cultural Development’ in Nantes, France, in 1984. Several years later Nantes became one of the renovating cultural city in France, establishing a "contemporary patrimony", which led Blaise to create a late-night cultural festival, "Les Allumées" (The Lighted Up). His concept was to have an arts festival in Nantes, 6 p.m.