The public is responding cautiously to reopening of museums and art galleries, confirming surveys that show less than a third of us are ready to return to indoor arts events immediately
Signage to maintain proper physical distancing is displayed on the elevators at the Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto.So, those who do venture out will discover pleasantly uncrowded spaces.
Hailey Imany sits down on a bench that is labelled for use by one visitor, or one friends group at a time, at the Royal Ontario Museum.“You can experience the ROM without feeling that you are in a crowded space,” promises Josh Basseches, director of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum . “Whether it’s [a show about] Ancient Egypt or dinosaurs, or floral design, you can make choices that keep you at a distance from others.
Visitors walk through Galleria Italia at the AGO, which can now accommodate 150 people every 30 minutes and 750 people a day.In the short term, the institutions’ COVID-19 budgeting has prepared them for this slow start; in the long term they need not just the ticket revenue but also sales in cafés and gift shops to balance the books. Both the ROM and the VAG, for example, are anticipating a 30 per cent drop in revenue.
Still, distancing seems paradoxical for museums, which have sought in recent years to bring more and different people into their buildings and engage them in interactive displays deliberately calculated to push the experience beyond the contemplative. Now, hands-on activities, such as touchable reproductions of artifacts and drawing stations for kids, have disappeared and touch screens have been replaced by QR codes that call up videos on visitors’ phones.
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