Reopening a museum post-Covid: the collected wisom
Adrian Ellis and Andras Szanto summarise experts' views on the vexing strategic dilemmas facing museums and galleries attempting to reopen safely under the current circumstances.
Art museums in the United States are figuring out when and how to reopen. They will be greeted by a changed world. To resume operations successfully, they need not only to minimize the risk of infection by the COVID-19 virus to visitors, volunteers, and staff, but also - critically - to instill confidence in all three parties.
In the absence of coordinated government policy or a commonly recognized and certified standard that a museum can demonstrate that it has met, museum leaders are looking to one another for advice, as well as to peer organizations worldwide, some of which are now reopening. They are seeking to coordinate efforts regionally and locally, in order to pool expertise and procurement power; to instill public confidence; and to encourage the adoption of agreed practices in visitors and audiences... Keep reading on artnet
Art museums in the United States are figuring out when and how to reopen. They will be greeted by a changed world. To resume operations successfully, they need not only to minimize the risk of infection by the COVID-19 virus to visitors, volunteers, and staff, but also - critically - to instill confidence in all three parties.
In the absence of coordinated government policy or a commonly recognized and certified standard that a museum can demonstrate that it has met, museum leaders are looking to one another for advice, as well as to peer organizations worldwide, some of which are now reopening. They are seeking to coordinate efforts regionally and locally, in order to pool expertise and procurement power; to instill public confidence; and to encourage the adoption of agreed practices in visitors and audiences... Keep reading on artnet