U.S. Museums Are Reopening: To See Monet, Don a Mask

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Robin Pogrebin

Sign at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as it prepared to reopen to the public on Saturday. (That’s Amedeo Modigliani’s 1916 “Portrait of Léopold Zborowski,’’ bemasked.)Bryan Schutmaat for The New York Times

You won’t be able to use the drinking fountains, check your coat or eat in the cafe. You will have to wear a mask, submit to a temperature check and agree to leave if you show signs of illness. These are the requirements set by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, when it reopens on Saturday, the first major arts institution in the country to welcome the public back since the outbreak of the pandemic. As several states begin to reopen, their museums are carefully doing the same, with new policies and protocols in place: The San Antonio Museum of Art on May 28; the Boca Raton Museum of Art on June 3; the Wichita Art Museum on June 23; the Cleveland Museum of Art around June 30. [More]