In France, small museums are preparing to reopen

The Giacometti Institute in Paris is preparing to reopen on May 15. Here, view on the facade of the Giacometti Lab, May 11, 2020. © Siegfried Forster / RFI

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In France, from this Monday, May 11, small museums are allowed to resume their activities. The Giacometti Institute in Paris is preparing to reopen it to "jointly reaffirm the role of art in society and in our individual lives". 

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The Giacometti Institute is one of the small museums authorized to open from today. Preparations are well underway to welcome visitors in a secure manner from Friday 15 May in this private museum nestled in the 14th arrondissement in Paris.

"  This is something that was perhaps easier to implement for us than for others," explains Catherine Grenier, the director of the Giacometti Institute, which depends on the Giacometti Foundation. We were already an institution in which we limited the public, and that, not for reasons of coronavirus, but since we wanted to foster a very intimate relationship of people with the works. So, we had a reduced number of people who could be in the spaces at the same time. And we had set up, from the start, an online reservation system by time slots, which was not exclusive, but still.

Today, we reopen with this online booking system by time slots, and this time exclusively. It is a visit by registration, very easy to do on our website, in twenty minute increments. We will accept ten people at a time, across the entire space. And then we ask visitors, by a visitor charter, to come with a mask and to respect certain safety instructions like keeping the distance, etc.  "

The Giacometti Institute remains one of the very few museums to open this week in France. Because, for the moment, there are no clear criteria to define a small museum. And the prefects have not yet published - in agreement with the communities and regional directorates of cultural affairs (DRAC) - lists with the museums authorized to open.

The Giacometti Institute in Paris is preparing to reopen on May 15. © Siegfried Forster / RFI

► The Giacometti Institute will reopen its doors by online reservation from Friday May 15, always between Thursday or Friday and Sunday.

► Also read: "Prayer to wifi, art in the days of the coronavirus"

► Read also: Arts: "create new beliefs to resist the current world"

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