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New York: It’s day at the museum again

After about six months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the renowned New York Natural History Museum has reopened its doors to visitors. In front of the building of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, which also became known worldwide for the Hollywood film “Nights in the Museum”, queues formed immediately after opening on Wednesday.

Tickets now have to be reserved online in advance, and fewer people are allowed into the exhibition rooms at the same time – and hygiene, distance and mask rules apply.

The natural history museum, which opened around 150 years ago, normally informs around five million visitors a year about many areas of science, including animals, plants, climate change, the formation of the earth, environmental protection and space.

Since the end of August, museums in New York, which have almost all been closed since March, have been allowed to reopen under strict conditions – but only do so gradually. Among other things, the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Whitney Museum are already open again, others want to follow suit, such as the Guggenheim Museum on October 3rd. The Corona crisis has been hitting the city’s cultural industry, which was one of the global epicentres of the pandemic in spring, hard for months.

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