Starting April 26, museums will also reopen on weekends, by reservation only

Museums, as of April 26, will also reopen on weekends, as stipulated in the March 6 dpcm, with a measure planned to start on March 27 then not coming into effect due to further restrictions imposed by the government. The confirmation came this morning from the chief of staff of the Minister of Culture, Lorenzo Casini, speaking at an online conference organized by Palazzo Strozzi on the topic of museums and Covid-19. On weekends, however, access will be possible only by reservation, which must be made at least one day in advance. Museums will open only in yellow zones for the time being. Late in the morning, official confirmation from the Ministry also arrived.

“Those rules that had been drawn as of March 27 are coming back,” Casini said. The possibility of reopening museums even on weekends had in fact been decided last Feb. 26 (and then made official in the dpcm of March 6) following a discussion by Culture Minister Dario Franceschini with the Technical Scientific Committee, as part of the measures that were supposed to lead to the reopening of cinemas and theaters as of March 27 (the date from which museums were to reopen on Saturdays and Sundays). The measure then did not go into effect because, as is well known, the government had decided to tighten security measures by postponing the opening of culture.

Solicitations to the MiC to have museums open on weekends as well had, after all, been coming since January. We had interviewed 20 museum directors on these pages last Feb. 6, and the prevailing feeling was that museums were already ready for weekend reopenings. Opening on weekends (and all the directors agree) is crucial to bring people closer to culture, and the security measures already in place make it possible to make sure that visitors enter museums on Saturdays and Sundays without problems.

In the photo: Florence, the National Museum of San Marco

Starting April 26, museums will also reopen on weekends, by reservation only

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