A closure that has lasted for three months: since October 30, museums and interpretation centers have been closed due to the health crisis. This time without the presence of the public is used to continue to take care of the collections and the exhibition spaces.
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Museums were no exception to the rule of closure imposed by the government on October 30 for all cultural places gathering the public. A forced downtime used to rearrange and maintain the exhibition spaces.
Works in solitude
If the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon does not currently welcome visitors, the collections continue to live on: maintenance, redevelopment of certain spaces, loans of works, restoration of certain works …
This is the case for the room dedicated to Orientalism in the 19th century at the Museum of Fine Arts, which is being redeveloped. Naïs Lefrançois, heritage curator, explains the work in progress: “This has allowed us, this prolonged closure, to work on certain hang-ups of rooms, to modify, to do maintenance on certain parts of the museography.
Recently we did a shooting campaign, we were able to get a whole room, take it to the photographer, take pictures of these works that did not have any and then bring them back, all in a week . “
The statues room of the Museum of Fine Arts of Dijon
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© FTV Sylvain Bouillot
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Towards a reopening of museums?
Museum professionals would like to present the current changes to the public, a great frustration that has been relayed through all the museums in France. The Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot announced on Monday February 8 that the “museums would be the first to reopen as soon as the Covid recedes” during a work meeting.
Working meeting on the modalities of reopening # museums, #monuments and art centers as soon as the health situation permits.
Thank you @olivierveran to be associated with videoconferencing: to be effective we must manage these subjects in a coherent way, together. pic.twitter.com/csn2qtKtCy– Roselyne Bachelot (@R_Bachelot) February 8, 2021
A word that does not go unnoticed, as noted by Christine Martin, deputy mayor of Dijon, delegate for Culture: “I hear attentively the words of the Minister of Culture, and here in Dijon we are ready. We are ready to reopen, allow us to do so, we know how to control the audiences, we know how to control the gauges, we know enforce protocols. Just let us open up, because our life today is sad actually. “
The report by Gabriel Talon and Sylvain Bouillot
Speakers:
- Naïs Lefrançois, heritage curator, Dijon Museum of Fine Arts
- Christine Martin, deputy mayor of Dijon, delegate for Culture
What do museums do when they are closed?
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