100% open museums, from Uffizi to Pompeii: “Normal time”

“Another step towards normality”. Museums are celebrating the opinion of the Technical-Scientific Committee, with the green light for 100% access to museums, called to verify the green pass of visitors and to “guarantee the organization of flows to encourage interpersonal distancing at every stage with the ‘exception of cohabiting households “. “We will welcome this decision, which will bring us another step towards normality. Moreover, already in the time of the full pandemic, almost a year ago, a study by the Polytechnic University of Berlin had proved that museums, theaters and cinemas are public places with a lower risk of contagion “, says the director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Eike Schmidt, in a statement to the Adnkronos.” It is a positive decision also because a whole series of measures that help to increase a lot of safety: we have our own routes, we have the green pass. In Pompeii there is also the possibility, at the entrance to the excavations, to swab free for those who still do not have the green certificate thanks to a collaboration with the Municipality and the Region and with local companies that contribute to this activity. I therefore think that in museums and archaeological parks there is security, let’s go ahead and see everything in a positive way “, he tells Adnkronos Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii “We have seen – adds the director – some very positive numbers but above all we have seen that the public is very collaborative both as regards the controls at the entrances and as regards the behavior in the excavations, respect distances and routes “.” We are overjoyed, obviously we are waiting for the government’s provisions, but after 4 closures and 5 restarts it is a very positive sign of a return to normality. We hope that it is really the right time “, the words of the president of the Egyptian Museum Foundation of Turin, Evelina Christillin.” This morning – adds Adnkronos – I personally heard Minister Franceschini to thank him for what he has done in favor not only of museums but of the whole cultural sector. For us it is an excellent result: just think that on an area of ​​11,000 square meters today we could accommodate 1300 people a day in periods of great turnout we have even reached 10,000. Now we are back to normal, naturally with a mask and green pass “.