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the Museum of Arts ready for its reopening on May 19

He hasn’t seen anyone for 6 months. Next Wednesday, finally, the Nantes Arts Museum, like many other places of culture, will find visitors. Light on what we will be able to see there, and how behind the scenes we are preparing for this recovery.

They counted the days, 201 exactly without these small daily gestures that keep the Museum running smoothly.

“It is a temporary exhibition that we have in the room, we are visiting it to see the procedures for switching on and off the installations”, Explain Melanie, receptionist.

For its reopening, the Nantes Arts Museum is spoiling its visitors with two temporary exhibitions at the same time.

The Hypnosis exhibition at the Nantes Art Museum

The Hypnosis exhibition at the Nantes Art Museum

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Those who had not been able to discover Hypnosis last October will have until the end of August to go there.

The new exhibition “United States of Abstraction”, devoted to American artists in France, had been mounted during the confinement. Initially scheduled for mid-February, it is extended until July.

With a hundred works and forty artists, it has benefited from astonishing adaptations to be finalized despite the health restrictions.

The Nantes Art Museum reopens on May 19, 2021

The Nantes Art Museum reopens on May 19, 2021

The Nantes Art Museum reopens on May 19, 2021

“Some conveyors, unable to move, have invented with us what I call a” virtual conveyor “, that is to say that you do the conveyance but with a tablet, explains Sophie Levy, director of Nantes Arts Museum, the restorer or the manager is in his country of origin, seated at his desk, and watches you hanging up the work “.

The museum gates will open Wednesday at 11 am, the public must be masked but also check the gauge of one person every 8 m². Or for the entire museum, no more than 600 people at a time.

No problem for the permanent collections, as the place is large, on the other hand, a system of hourly reservations will be necessary for temporary exhibitions.

“In terms of temporary exhibitions, we will be in more restricted spaces and with more restricted waiting areas, details Mélanie Trévigan, reception manager at the Nantes Arts Museum, to see the Hypnosis exhibition, we will, first of all, bring in groups of six people every quarter of an hour and in the USA exhibition it will be ten people every quarter of an hour “.

The Hypnosis exhibition will also benefit from a 360-degree virtualization after the summer, in order to reach a new audience eager to rediscover the treasures of the Nantes Museum of Arts.

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