Post COVID-19 Museums

Sunrise. On Saturday, June 11, 2011, International Space Station astronaut Ron Garan used a high definition camera to film one of the sixteen sunrises astronauts see each day. This image shows the rising sun as the station flew along a path between Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Image Credit: NASA

“the museums that reopen, will not be the museums that closed” [i]

– Scott Stulen, CEO and President of Philbrook Museum of Art,

I think we all have a sense of equity, if something bad is happening something good should result. COVID-19 has forever changed museums; the American Alliance of Museums is predicting that between 20% and 40% of museums will permanently close due to Coronavirus[ii]. That…