Culture is slowly spreading its wings again. In June, around fifty contemporary art centers, notably the FRAC (Regional Contemporary Art Fund), will reopen, announced Minister of Culture Franck Riester.
Tuesday June 9, the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques-Chirac will be the first major Parisian museum to reopen. The Minister of Culture "welcomes the reopening of many labeled structures of artistic creation and subsidized structures of the visual arts", in cooperation with the regions, municipalities and departments, said his services in a statement.
Culture transposed online during containment
Contemporary art, whether it is exhibited in these subsidized or public places, or in galleries, has largely suffered from confinement. As a result, online exhibitions and sales have grown. "In compliance with sanitary measures, these are nearly 50 art centers and FRAC who can again or will be able to welcome the public during the month of June," he said.
"French women and men, whose appetite and need for art and culture were expressed so strongly during confinement on the Internet, can finally return to places of contemporary art," said the minister. Reopen the 18 FRACs in all regions of France, and, in Paris, the Palais de Tokyo (June 15), with the contemporary art exhibitions Ulla von Brandenburg and "Our world is burning".
A reopening of the museums spread over a month and a half
For its part, the Center des monuments nationaux (CMN) has announced a first set of dates. The Château d'Angers and the Abbey of Cluny open their doors on Saturday. Monday, this will be the case among others of the ramparts of Aigues-Mortes, and, Monday, June 15, of the castle and the ramparts of the city of Carcassonne. The domain of Saint-Cloud and the Palais-Royal had already opened on May 30.
The reopening of national museums and monuments became possible again from June 2 but will in practice be spread out for a month and a half, with a reopening planned only in July for several of the largest establishments, including the Grand Palais and the Center Pompidou (July 1) and the Louvre (July 6).
In Paris, the Musée d'Orsay and the Palais de la Découverte (June 23), the City of Science and Industry (June 27) will precede them by a few days. Two emblematic areas of France are emerging from confinement: the Château de Chambord welcomed its first visitors on Friday, and it will be the turn of Versailles on Saturday.
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