The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will reopen next week, but it will be limited GlobeArts
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
There will be no café, no coat check and only one show, but one of the most popular museums in Canada will reopen next week. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts announced Friday that it will stage a limited reopening June 6. The only exhibition will be Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives, a display of mummies from the British Museum, which was forced to close two weeks early in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Quebec government allowed its museums to reopen as early as this weekend, but the MMFA delayed one week to mount physical-distancing plans. The mummies show, which uses scientific and historical research to uncover the lives of the six ancient Egyptians inside the coffins, is the only part of the museum’s exhibits and collections that will be open. Visitors, who are encouraged to wear masks, will enter at set times and follow a one-way path.
The only exhibition available for viewing will be Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives, a display of mummies from the British Museum.“If we want to attract visitors, we have to convince them we are a safe COVID space,” MMFA director Nathalie Bondil said in a recent interview.Museums have started to reopen in Western Canada – the Winnipeg Art Gallery was first out of the gate on May 5; the Royal B.C.
Both the ROM and the Museum of History remain closed. The ROM, which was supposed to welcome the mummies in May, is now in discussions with the British Museum to bring the exhibit to Toronto in the fall.
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