After the citizens and the economy, it is the turn of culture and in particular museums and monuments to continue their deconfinement. Small selection of cultural temples already open or about to open their doors.
And if you go back to admire an exhibition or a majestic place? Closed since March 17, museums and monuments have begun a slow deconfinement since May 11. But many of them preferred to wait until June to open their doors to visitors again. Wearing a mandatory mask, often like booking, and on the way for an overview of the déconfinés establishments!
This weekend, the forefront of reopening
Versailles imposes itself. The Château du Roi-Soleil (Yvelines) opens its doors again this Saturday, June 6 with some new features. “The confinement was an opportunity to renovate the roof of the royal chapel, to rewind the clocks, but also to dust off the Hall of Mirrors… for the first time since its restoration in 2007“, explains Catherine Pgard, president of the public establishment of the castle at Point. Visitors will again be able to walk around the castle, the park and the entire estate at the usual times. However, the Coach Museum and the Louis XIV Galleries or Empire, are still closed.
No less important in the history of France, the domain of Chambord (Loir-et-Cher) is also coming back to life. From this Friday, June 5, visitors are invited to follow a route designed to discover Leonardo da Vinci’s double-helix staircase. The Château de Chenonceau (Indre-et-Loire) with its magnificent span over the water opens on the 6th and only on weekends in June on this date.
The National Monuments Center – which notably manages the Conciergerie (Paris), the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel (Manche) or the castle of Azay-le-Rideau (Indre-et-Loire) – plans the reopening of 48 of its sites “during the week of June 6”, without giving further details.
Mid-June, the openings are linked
In the same gesture, this Center plans the opening of 32 monuments during the week of June 13th. The castle of Compiègne (Oise) plans to open on June 15, as does the Arsenal of the seas of Rochefort (Charente-Maritime). The Marc Chagall National Museum in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) will open from June 20. The birthplace of Bonaparte in Ajaccio (Corsica), the Napoleonic Museum of the Ile d’Aix (Charente-Maritime) and the birthplace of Georges-Clemenceau (Vendée) are planning to reopen during the third week of June. The MuCem in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) is due to open on June 29.
In Paris, the institution of modern painting, the Musée d’Orsay, is preparing to welcome the public from June 23, as is the Palais de la Découverte.
The pionneers
Know that many castles and museums have already opened their doors. The Museum of Fine Arts in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) was one of the first to come out of deconfinement on May 11. The castle of Amboise (Indre-et-Loire), the Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire and its International Garden Festival (Loir-et-Cher), the castle of Chantilly (Oise) or the Palace of the Popes (Vaucluse) are already welcoming the public. Ditto for the Manufacture de Roubaix (Nord) since May 22 and the Musée des Confluences (Lyon), June 2.
In Paris, the 11 Conti Museum of the Monnaie de Paris opened on May 30. Admission is exceptionally free throughout the month of June.
July and beyond
On July 1, the Center Pompidou (Paris), the National Museum of the Renaissance in Ecouen (95), the Château de Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) planned to come out of deconfinement on July 1. The national museum of prehistory of Eyzies (Dordogne) and Lugdunum (Lyon) must follow them a few days later. Finally, the Louvre museum opens again on July 6 and that of Asian arts – Guimet on July 8.
Some museums under construction such as the House of Victor Hugo (Paris) or the Carnavalet (Paris) will not open before the start of the school year.
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