China News Service, May 18, according to Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po reported on the 18th, many European countries have recently lifted the closure of the city due to the new crown epidemic, including restrictions on many museums and art galleries. However, when the virus threat has not dissipated and epidemic prevention measures have become the new normal in daily life, the future experience of visitors in the museum will no longer be the same.
When the museum reopened, many anti-epidemic measures were added, such as forcing visitors to wear masks, or stipulating that they can only visit the designated routes. How to allow visitors to interact freely with exhibits and ensure a balance between epidemic prevention has become a difficult problem for museum management in the future.
Data Map: On March 2, local time, the Louvre Museum in Paris, France was closed due to the impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. The Louvre staff worried that the epidemic refused to go to work.
Under the epidemic prevention measures, "no longer the same as before"
The German state governments have successively unblocked them. Among them, Berlin has allowed the museum to reopen since May 4, but most museums were still closed at the time to prepare for the restart. Taking the Berlin City Gallery as an example, the museum spent more than a week dealing with logistical matters and additional epidemic prevention measures. It was not officially reopened until the 11th. When visitors enter the gallery, the staff will require them to wear masks, observe social distance measures, and encourage them to use disinfectant hand sanitizer.
Keller, director of the Berlin City Gallery, said that he believes that visitors will be more happy when they visit the gallery in the future than the epidemic prevention. However, Grick, a 20-year-old visitor, frankly admits that it is impossible to relax and appreciate art under the epidemic prevention measures, "it is no longer the same as before."
Some museums rely heavily on foreign tourists to maintain their income. For example, the East Germany Museum in Berlin had a daily visitor count of 2,000 before the outbreak, and it dropped to 50 after the reopening at the beginning of the month. In addition, the museum promotes interactive exhibits, and even uses "touchable history" as a slogan, which makes it difficult to reopen.
Maximum number of visitors
According to the government's suggestion, the East German Museum added additional facilities such as hand sanitizer disinfection, and arranged staff to disinfect the exhibits frequently, but visitors were not forced to wear masks. Diman, who visited the museum on the 11th, mentioned that she thought she needed to wear gloves, but the museum did not ask her to let her breath away. Her fellow friend Goldsmith pointed out that there were not many visitors in the museum, so he was not too worried about it. be infected.
Museums in other European countries have also gradually reopened. France is the first to allow small museums to open. Large museums such as the Louvre and the Orsay Museum may have to wait until summer. Located in the 14th district of Paris, the Giacometti Academy covers an area of only about 343 square meters. It mainly houses the works of the Swiss sculptor Giacometti and is one of the museums approved to reopen. Since the museum has been closed for up to 2 months, only 10 visitors are allowed to visit at the same time after reopening, so the reservation will be full on the day of reopening on the 15th.
After the reopening of the German History Museum, the upper limit of visitors is set to 65, and visitors will stay in the museum for an average of 2 hours. Neuburg, 40, believes that the epidemic prevention atmosphere has made the atmosphere in the museum more harmonious and easy to focus on. She described her life as slowing down in the epidemic.