“You have to get out of your internet screen to see real life. Real life before.“It is a visitor crossed near the ex-votos of the archaeological museum of Dijon which says it. Even if the City of Dijon proposed activities on line during the confinement, l” https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr / “aesthetic emotion and the thirst for discovery “ are obviously not the same. So for all those who wish to disconnect from networks, to reconnect to history or art, let them rejoice! The “small museums” reopen their doors. No date concerning the Museum of Fine Arts has yet been communicated.
Suspended group tours
The meeting is therefore given in the four municipal museums of the City of the Dukes: the archaeological, François Rude, Burgundian life and sacred art museums. The contemporary art center, the Consortium, has also decided to welcome the public again.
The works and other sculptures are not hidden, but they also impatiently awaited the return of visitors. However, they are only received in compliance with the new health measures: wearing a mask and mandatory hand disinfection. All surfaces with which visitors are in contact are disinfected regularly. The touch pads, they were deactivated and the coffee machines, condemned.
Thomas Charenton is Deputy Director of the museums of the City of Dijon. According to him, the reopening is a “happy event“because even if some are active in reserves or with collections, “Nothing replaces contact with the public.“Limited contact, since guides today can no longer speak in front of a group of visitors. It is therefore the individual formula that museums today offer.
Shopping before culture?
At the Consortium, Dijon contemporary art center, the teams were keen to reveal their temporary exhibition to the public … inaugurated two days before the start of confinement. On the first day of its reopening, few visitors … But we try to put things into perspective and we tell ourselves that “people want to run in the fields or go to the shopping centers “.
It is true that there were more visitors when the doors of the Toison d’Or shopping center were reopened, but in Dijon we are not worried. “People will start going out again and they will go to museums little by little, just like they went back to the shops. ”
There is no doubt that art and culture will help us regain a taste for life. “It’s a restart, a new start “, and it’s another art buff met near a painting that announces it.
The report by Maryline Barate, Damien Rabeisen and Cécile Reveillaud:
In Dijon, “small museums” have reopened
The “small museums” were able to reopen on May 11. In Dijon, 4 municipal establishments as well as the Dijon contemporary art center, the Consortium, have been welcoming the public since Wednesday. – Maryline Barate, Damien Rabeisen and Cécile Reveillaud —
