By State House News Service With the state's COVID-19 restrictions newly over, performance venues, museums and other cultural institutions across Massachusetts are able to welcome back guests, but sector leaders said Tuesday that they expect virtual offerings to remain a long-term feature. Members of a special commission examining the pandemic's impacts on the cultural sector said that reopening presents an opportunity to reimagine aspects of a field that typically operates on tight margins, where low pay can drive artists, performers and others away from their passions and into other lines of work. MassCreative Executive Director Emily Ruddock said a handful of states -- including Oregon, where state officials used federal CARES Act money early on in the pandemic to buoy arts and cultural institutions -- are "seriously considering" legislation and policy to prop up their creative sectors, and Dan Yaeger of the New England Museum Association said that in Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed using $15 million in American Rescue Act funds to make admission at several museums free for children over the summer.