Paris (AFP)
Museums and monuments will be the first to reopen "when we have a decline", declared Monday the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot on BFM-TV, specifying that "we are not there yet on the cinemas and shows".
"I have always said that in this calendar, museums and monuments would be the first to be called to reopen," "when we have a decline," said the minister.
"I understand people asking me for dates. As soon as there is a possibility, we do it."
"A museum does not open like you turn on the light in a room," said the minister.
"The directors told us that it takes between 3 days for the fastest and 15 days to 3 weeks if we respect (...) a certain number of procedures".
"So if we have visibility of 3 to 4 days, it is not possible. We need visibility over a fortnight," added Roselyne Bachelot.
The Minister of Culture brings together this morning "the various managers of these structures (museums: editor's note), which are very diverse", since they include public establishments, municipal museums, private museums, "which have different characteristics for the reopening, "she said.
This meeting will be held with the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
Sunday, the infectious disease specialist Eric Caumes pleaded in favor of the reopening of cultural and sporting venues, "affected" because of the Covid-19 epidemic, in the name of the mental health of the French who "fall into disaster".
"I think we really have to relaunch all this because we all fall into the sinistrosis, we turn into zombies, without culture, without leisure other than those we have at home, without sport", declared the chef of infectious and tropical diseases at the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital on BFM-TV.
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