The International Council of Museums (Icom), which has an eye on some 95,000 establishments in the world (+ 60% since 2012 until the pandemic vitrifies this boom) sounded the alarm last Monday, to the occasion of the International Museum Day. "This area cannot survive on its own without the support of the public and private sectors , " said President Suay Aksoy.
Even the big ones, the behemoths such as the Louvre which had up to 20,000 visitors a day? They are the best backed. But they too, if they are not going to die, are suffering and will continue to suffer. Faced with adversity, policies are emerging as small museums, those "whose usual attendance is essentially local and whose reopening is not likely to cause significant displacement of population" (decree no. 2020-545 of May 11, art.8-3 °), open half-heartedly.
Former President of Icom France, former patron of the Musée de Normandie then
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