UK Museums Set To Re-open From 17 May
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has provisionally announced that museums could open their doors to the public from 17 May. This four-step plan is part of a roadmap to ease restrictions initiated during the Covid19 pandemic. The Prime Minister announced the plan would go ahead conditionally if new infections were to remain low.
Under the latest guidelines, commercial galleries could be permitted to open from 12 April under new safety measures. Galleries are considered non-essential retail outlets.
Official guidance for the Government sets out that “indoor entertainment, including museums, cinemas and some theatres would be able to open with social distancing in place but has ruled out a vaccine passport for the time being.
In June 2020, it was rumored that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich had purchased one of four versions of “The Scream” for $120 million, but Abramovich denied the.
By Sophie Lewis
February 23, 2021 / 7:01 AM / CBS News
Barely visible in the top left-hand corner of one of the world s most famous paintings are the words, Could only have been painted by a madman! For years, curators and art historians have wondered who wrote it.
After decades of debate, experts confirmed this week that the artist himself, Edvard Munch, is responsible for the inscription on his most famous work, The Scream.
According to The National Museum of Norway, a Danish art critic first noticed the inscription during an exhibition in Copenhagen in 1904 thinking that a member of the public had written it as an act of vandalism.
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