PARIS, May 12 — Often overlooked by tourists flocking to the Louvre, the Centre Pompidou and other superstar museums, France’s more intimate galleries and cultural sites are preparing to open their doors as the coronavirus lockdown is progressively lifted. Unlike their huge rivals that attract...
A member of staff prepares exhibition rooms at The Musee Hyacinthe Rigaud in Perpignan on May 11, 2020, in readiness to receive visitors after the partial lifting of restrictions on movement in France. — AFP pic
“Little museums,” as Culture Minister Franck Riester called them this month, will be allowed to open from this week if directors secure approval from municipal authorities. They include the Manoir de Kerazan in Brittany, one of the best-preserved feudal estates of western France, and the Musee de l’Image in Epinal in eastern France, which celebrates traditionalist prints popular since the 18th century.
But no decision has yet been made on reopening the hugely popular home and gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny, north-west of Paris.National monuments and museums like the Eiffel Tower or Musee d’Orsay remain closed until further notice, and the government has extended its health state of emergency until July 10 as it tries to combat the crisis.
She estimated the 14 museums and sites her agency runs in Paris, including the Catacombs, the Carnavalet history museum and the home of the revered writer Balzac, had suffered €12 million of lost ticket sales and other revenue during the closures. Other lesser-known Paris museums, such as the Marmottan or the Jacquemart Andre, which had obtained loaned works from the Tate in London for a vast Turner retrospective before the crisis hit, are aiming to open on June 2.
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