10 Ways for Museums to Survive and Thrive in a Post-Covid World
That the pandemic did damage to museums is unquestioned but their resilience has been remarkable.
Pablo Bronstein’s “Historical Rhode Island Decor,” part of last year’s “Raid the Icebox Now” installation at the Rhode Island School of Design.Credit.via RISD Museum
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You thought a museum with no visitors would be a quiet one? Not last year it wasn’t not when the longest closure of America’s cultural institutions since World War II coincided with intense scrutiny of just how those institutions behave. Leadership was working overtime. Staff and audiences raised their voices, sometimes angrily. It’s natural to want to get “back to normal” after such a devastating suspension; in Los Angeles, museums were closed for over a year. But American museums in 2021 have a far bigger challenge than flipping the lights
From masterpieces looted by the Nazis to maritime paintings and works by gay artists, a wide variety of art in a wide variety of media will be on display.
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