Open, don't reopen? The worry of Italian museums after the lockdown
- Antonio Addari
- May 7, 2020
- 1 min read
Government measures to restart after lockdown in Italy provide for reopening museums and exhibitions on May 18th. There is a great debate going on at the moment because most of the public and private institutions and private organizers of exhibitions consider the reopening uneconomical if they have to follow the security measures and also allow public access by respecting the social distance. They say that the cost of keeping a museum open is more expensive than the value of the tickets they can sell.
It is sad to think that exactly one year ago, May 18th 2019, there was the last “European Night of Museums” with a large attendance of public.
It will take a while before we see a crowd like this in front of the Primavera …
In Denmark our government has just announced that our Museums will open again from june 8, after have beeing closed since march 8. This is a wonderfull news to get in these difficult times. The MTAB team is looking forward to see all our friends at the museums get back to all the exhibitions as has been at a stand still.
We are still waiting to see how the airlines choose to change the routings to main Scandinavian airports, as we for now can see SAS and Norwegian being close to complete shutdown.