MoMA announces its reopening, with free access, after five months of closure due to the pandemic

Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in September 2019.SPENCER PLATT

The emblematic Museum of Modern Art in New York, MoMA, announced this Monday that it will reopen its doors for August 27 after five months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. Through a statement, the museum has reported the changes it has carried out to ensure security protocols against the latent risk of new infections. Admission will only be with scheduled tickets that can be obtained from August 21 online and free for a month.

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The MoMA announcement follows those made by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Met, and the Whitney Museum, which reported on their reopening on August 29 and September 3, respectively. In this way, the cultural life of New York tries to recover a little of its brilliance and splendor after the five months of paralysis, since the beginning of March.

New York, one of the states hardest hit by the pandemic, has adopted a gradual deconfinement to prevent infections from continuing to increase. Last week, the Governor of the State, Andrew Cuomo, informed that the museums and art galleries could reopen as of August 24, with staggered entries and capacity limited to 25% of their capacity.