Pandemic: Italy half-opens its museums without strategy while Spain plays flexibility

• Italy: cultural actors divided

While the policy to fight the virus is regional in Italy, on November 3, museums were closed across the country.

"

As if culture were the first thing to sacrifice and its sacrifice the least heavy with consequences"

, indignant Cristiana Parrella, director of Centro Pecci in Prato.

His call for their reopening is a cry in the desert, or almost.

Only the International Council of Museums (Icom) called on the Italian government on November 30, asking:

"More than ever, let's open museums, and now!"

But those involved in culture, if they are worried, it is between themselves.

Basically, deplores Cristiana Parrella,

"There was no explanation on the part of those who made the decisions, or in-depth debate on the part of those who suffered them."

Worse: his appeal responds to an editorial of January 3, in

Artribune

, by its director, Massimiliano Tonelli, who launches:

"And if it was the best choice?"

For him the

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