Government eliminates compulsory reservation for museums: remains for big ones only

With the decree-law approved on May 18, the government finally abolished the mandatory reservation requirement for visiting museums on weekends. The measure, which was introduced with the April 26 reopenings, affected all museums indiscriminately, but had raised many protests from museum operators. Now it remains only for museums that have recorded more than one million visitors in 2019.

Here’s what the text of the decree-law says: “In the yellow zone, the service of opening to the public of museums and other institutes and places of culture referred to in Article 101 of the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, referred to in Legislative Decree No. 42 of January 22, 2004, is ensured on condition that these institutes and places, taking into account the size and characteristics of the premises open to the public, as well as the flow of visitors, guarantee modalities of use that are quota-based or in any case such as to avoid assemblages of people and to allow visitors to respect the distance between them of at least one meter. For the institutes and places of culture that recorded a number of visitors exceeding one million in the year 2019, on Saturdays and holidays the service is provided provided that the entrance has been booked online or by telephone at least one day in advance.”

Pictured below: visitors to the Borghese Gallery on the day of the reopening (ph. Credit Borghese Gallery)

Government eliminates compulsory reservation for museums: remains for big ones only

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