Museum Notebook: UK museums struggling in the time of Covid
31 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Whanganui Chronicle
By: Riah King-Wall
While cultural organisations are open as usual in Whanganui and the rest of New Zealand, it is a different story entirely elsewhere around the world.
Museums have struggled immensely during the ongoing pandemic, with sporadic closures, lack of income and staff burnout all taking their toll.
In the United Kingdom, museums have responded to these challenging conditions in different ways.
For almost a year now a majority of the 2500 museums in UK have been closed entirely.
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During periods of eased lockdown in the last few months of 2020, some larger institutions were able to open with strict restrictions on capacity, pre-booked tickets and enforcement of social distancing and one-way trails through exhibitions.