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Covid-19: modified schedules, regionalized measures ... the museum plan to reopen

2021-02-04T19:13:05.417Z


The two petitions for the reopening of museums have merged and their initiators send a letter to the Minister of Culture, with di


The first list came from cultural figures, the second from museum officials.

Several hundred signatories of the two petitions, published this week, for the immediate reopening of museums and art centers, have joined forces to merge their proposals for a plan to return to life and welcome the public.

They must send their ten suggestions this evening to the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot.

They were waiting for assurances that a re-containment was ruled out.

Museums want to be able to open, even at flexible times.

Because unlike cinemas, for which maintaining the curfew at 6 p.m. would make any reopening economically unviable - as well as for live entertainment - museums are ready for it: "Anyway, even when they are. closed, they are open.

Staff work permanently in museums.

The works are there, you have to watch them and take care of them.

We adapt very well to

stop and go

which is not bearable for other cultural activities.

This does not change the operating costs, and the reopening period would only be a few days at most, ”explains Frédéric Jousset, president of the ArtExplora Foundation, one of the three signatories of the 9 proposals with Emma Lavigne, president of the Palais de Tokyo, dedicated to contemporary art in Paris, and journalist Florence Belkacem.

What if we were inspired by our neighbors?

This document calls for a partial reopening immediately, on weekends, "when families have time", or on the contrary, as in Italy, on weekdays.

To begin.

The signatories also call on "to free access to heritage places in areas with low circulation of the virus", such as Brittany and the Pays de la Loire, for example.

“We impose administrative closures from Lille to Perpignan without any distinction, while we know very well that the situation is very different depending on the region.

The situation is absurd.

The Swiss, for example, impose a quarantine on French people from certain departments, not others.

But with us, everyone is in the same boat.

What is the good of having implemented regionalization to get there?

This prevents small local museums from opening when, even in normal times, they receive very few visitors… ”adds Frédéric Jousset.

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Those in charge of cultural establishments also ask to be able to welcome schoolchildren, through a “cultural and learning winter”, a way of repeating Emmanuel Macron's expression at the time of the first confinement.

This desire to accomplish an educational mission, while schools remain open, is shared by very large French museums, even those which, held to a duty of reserve, have not signed the stands.

Likewise, these cultural leaders want to allow the 100,000 young people who already hold the Culture Pass, one of the President of the Republic's major projects, to go to museums without further delay.

Avoid clusters

Another proposal suggests giving priority to small and medium-sized museums, those that have never experienced the madness of large, successful exhibitions, even before the pandemic.

It encourages a generalized pre-registration system on the Internet to manage flows as well as possible and, finally, to develop an assessment with the regional health agencies with a view to detecting any clusters in heritage places upstream.

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Abroad, generalized test systems have even led to the organization of concerts.

While the Prado, in Madrid, is open, like great Italian museums, the revolt is brewing among their French counterparts, overwhelmed to see so many people in the streets and shops while they remain empty: "We just ask a minimum alignment with the general system, which allows libraries to remain open.

If we don't speak, nothing will happen.

According to the signatories, the health protocols to be applied could be inspired by those applied in libraries or places of worship.

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Is it not too late, as variants of the virus multiply, to call for relaxation?

“France is the country of cultural exception, but it is among our European neighbors that museums are reopening.

Anyway, either we win or we do not lose, because we cannot do worse than the current situation, ”says Frédéric Jousset.

While the blues are invading more and more the museum environment, this anger has at least had the merit of awakening an environment anesthetized by the crisis.

And who wants to raise his head, and show his masterpieces.

Source: leparis

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