The state Hermitage Museum opens after quarantine in Kazan and Amsterdam
ARTinvestment.RU   26 мая 2020

For example, the work of these branches of the Museum will test new rules for visiting exhibitions

Peace is gradually returning to normal life — country after country and city after city begin to weaken, if not entirely to abolish the quarantine measures. And although, according to a recent interview Minister of culture of the Russian Federation Olga Lyubimova, "museums will be able to take individual visitors in mid-July only on the condition that the restrictive measures will not be extended" in certain regions of our country, by the decision of local authorities, museums have opened doors to the public.

One of the first such museums has become a branch of the State Hermitage Museum in Kazan, located in the premises of the Kazan Kremlin. The Museum started its work on 18 may 2020, and since then, doing invaluable work for other museums in the country, accumulating experience in post-crisis era. This was in yesterday's a press-конференции Agency TASS said the Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky: "We were lucky. We have a Hermitage just opened in Kazan, a few days later opens another Hermitage — in Amsterdam, and we collect all this experience and spread among colleagues in order to really create a system in which people will feel comfortable".

And to create a lot and really almost from scratch: for the sake of safety museums have to reconsider the sale of tickets, the reception of visitors and their distribution through the halls, to provide features of work with special groups of visitors, including older people, children and people with limited mobility, and much more.

At this point in the center "Hermitage-Казань", where at the moment is extended from-за pandemic until October 18, 2020, the exhibition "Matisse. Picasso. Chagall... the Art of Western Europe 1910-1940-х years in the Hermitage collection", there are rules of visiting: the Museum, visitors need to observe social distance, and can move strongly in one direction, all visitors and tourists and guides must be in PPE — masks and gloves.

in addition, in the Museum at the same time no more than 10 people in the individual groups and no more than 5 people in the tour, entrance area museums include antiseptics, during the day in the exhibition and the exhibition halls there is a wet cleaning and disinfection, rooms aired, and the visit to the Museum is possible only according to a strict schedule, the sessions, the break between them is necessarily not less than half an hour.

the Material was prepared by Maria Kuznetsova, AI

Source: tass.ru