Museums Are Reopening Around the World, But Visiting Them Is Now Very… Odd. See Surreal Images of Post-Lockdown Museums
April showers usually bring May flowers, but this year the
seasonal change is even more glorious, as it’s coinciding with
some—though certainly not all—reopenings of museums and other
cultural sites to the public. After the economy and institutions in
cities around the world took a hit during lockdown, select cities
are tentatively reopening communal spaces including art galleries
and museums.
But just because visitors are have returned, it doesn’t mean
things look like the beforetimes. Museums in Germany, South Korea,
China, Switzerland, and Poland are among the first to ease
restrictions, though with some marked changes: Everyone is wearing
protective face masks, hand-santizing stations are omnipresent, and
markers on floors now denote six-feet-apart social distancing
recommendations.
Below, see some of the surreal images of how museum visits
around the world now look.
A visitor looking at Auguste Rodin’s
The Thinker at the Alte Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin.
Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images.
The newly reopened Haus Der Kunst art
museum on the first day the museum reopened to the public in
Munich. Photo by Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images.
A visitor at the Alte Pinakothek on the
first day the museum reopened in Munich. Photo by Hannes
Magerstaedt/Getty Images.
Visitors at the Old Masters Gallery at
the Zwinger palace complex in Dresden, Germany. Photo by Matthias
Rietschel/Getty Images.
Tape marks social distancing guidelines
at Gropius Bau museum on May 11 in Berlin. Photo by Sean
Gallup/Getty Images.
Visitors come to the Old National
Gallery in Berlin. Photo by Britta Pedersen/picture alliance via
Getty Images.
A lady wearing a face visor during her
visit to the Barbican Museum in Krakow, Poland. Photo by Artur
Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images.
A visitor at the reopening of the Museum
Brandhorst in Munich. Photo by Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images.
A visitor checks out roman busts at the
Altes Museum (Old Museum) in Berlin Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP
via Getty Images.
Visitors wearing face masks look at
paintings at the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) museum
in Berlin. Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images.
Markers show visitors where to stand for
social distancing in Seoul. Photo by Jong Hyun Kim/Anadolu Agency
via Getty Images.
Visitors wearing face masks wait in line
to enter an exhibition hall at the National Museum of Korea in
Seoul. Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images.
National Museum of Korea is re-opened to
public with increased health measures. Photo by Jong Hyun
Kim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.
Visitors browse in the starry Art
Museum. Shanghai, China. Photo: Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty
Images.
Visitors browse in the starry Art
Museum. Shanghai, China. Photo: Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty
Images.
A man wearing protective mask visit the
Museum of Illusion on May 13, 2020 in Paris. Photo by FRANCK
FIFE/AFP via Getty Images.
A staff member holds a sign of wearing
face masks at the Palace Museum on the first day of its reopening
in Beijing, China. Photo by Sheng Jiapeng/China News Service via
Getty Images.
A staff member holds a sign of wearing
face masks at the Palace Museum in Beijing, China. Photo by Du
Yang/China News Service via Getty Images.
People visit Simatai Great Wall in
Beijing, China. Photo by Su Dan/China News Service via Getty
Images.
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