Museums and cinemas may also be closed in December. He anticipates it--the minister of sports!

It’s looking bad for cinemas, theaters and museums: in fact, it is likely that they will not reopen with the deadline of the Nov. 3 dpcm (which will take effect until Dec. 3), but rather will remain closed for the entire month of December. There is still uncertainty, in short: the one leaked from the words of the minister of cultural heritage, Dario Franceschini, in his interview with Finestre sull’Arte this week (at the moment, Franceschini said, “we do not know how long it will be necessary to keep museums closed”), and the one that still shrouds all of culture.

Also intervening to explain the situation was the minister of sports, Vincenzo Spadafora, who launched into some more thorny anticipations than Dario Franceschini’s, and not only with regard to sports, but even with regard to what concerns the reopening of cultural venues. After Dec. 3, Spadafora said while speaking on Rai Uno’s weeklong show Porta a Porta, there will remain “the system of colors and what is possible in the yellow, orange and red zones, and this also applies to sports,” he said. “Gyms,” Spadafora continued, “are closed everywhere, along with cinemas, theaters, museums. I believe that all these realities that we closed with the last dpcm (so not only gyms and swimming pools, but also museums, theaters, and so many other things), will remain closed in December as well.”

Asked by journalist Bruno Vespa if “we will therefore not be able to go to the cinema in December,” Spadafora responded by explaining that “on cinema we will ask Franceschini specifically, but I think it will be difficult, mainly for one reason: we cannot repeat the effect we had in the summer, so even if in two weeks the data should be, as we all hope, better, because they will be the fruit and effects of the measures we took with the last dpcm, we have to overcome the most critical months, and therefore also the winter, still having to make sacrifices.”

On the reason for the possible extension of the closures, Spadafora expressed himself in these terms (referring, however, to sports), “I believe that at this time the health conditions do not exist to be able to provide for these openings in the new dpcm. I understand that it will be an additional hardship for this whole world, but today the conditions do not exist, so it is good to prepare, almost certainly, for the fact that there will be an extension for these closures. Of course, this will mean that we will also help these sectors for all the additional time they will be closed.”

Image: Prato, Praetorian Palace. Ph. Credit Finestre Sull’Arte

Museums and cinemas may also be closed in December. He anticipates it--the minister of sports!

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