Courtesy Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin.
The Castello di Rivoli has offered up its galleries to help the vaccination effort in Italy. The Turin museum will be the first cultural venue to transform itself into a vaccination center for the public.
The pilot program will begin in March or April, depending on the timeline of the rollout of the vaccine for medical workers and in-patient elderly folk, who will be vaccinated first.
Museum director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev says in a statement that the museum is “well-equipped” for the initiative with the space needed to maintain social distancing. Climate-control, security, and timed entry protocols are also already in place, all of which are essential to smoothly running vaccine center. “Our friendly museum guides are well-trained in monitoring the public,” Christov-Bakargiev adds.