Galleries in Europe open doors as lockdown lifts – in pictures
While museums and galleries across the UK remain closed, cultural institutions abroad are beginning to welcome visitors as lockdown eases
by Guy Lane
A member of staff checks visitors’ temperatures at the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris, France
Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty
A poster illustrates physical distancing for visitors to the Old Masters gallery in Dresden, Germany
Photograph: Jens Meyer/AP
People visit an art history display at the Picasso Museum in Malága, Spain. It offers free entry for sanitary personnel and members of the security forces in return for their work during coronavirus pandemic
Photograph: Jon Nazca/Reuters
Visitors attend the exhibition Monet, Renoir, Chagall: Journeys around the Mediterranean at the Atelier des Lumières Museum in Paris, France
Photograph: Julien de Rosa/EPA
A visitor passes a green light in Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark. The museum has installed traffic lights to assist with physical distancing
Photograph: Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images
Visitors look at an installation at the Jacquemart- André Museum in Paris, France
Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty
A visitor in Milan’s Gallery of Modern Art. Many Italian businesses have been allowed to reopen after more than two months of a nationwide lockdown
Photograph: Roberto Finizio/Getty
People visit the Colonna Palace, one of the oldest and largest private palaces in Rome, Italy
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
People visit the ARoS Museum of Art in Aarhus, Denmark. It recently reopened after two months of closure
Photograph: Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images
A couple visit the Borghese Gallery in Rome, Italy
Photograph: Antonio Masiello/Getty
A child rests at the Borghese Gallery in Rome, Italy
Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty
A visitor passes Edward Hopper’s Cape Cod Morning at the Beyeler Foundation in Riehen near Basel, Switzerland. Hopper’s locked up, lonely characters and empty spaces have gained currency during the pandemic
Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty
Visitors inspect The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium
Photograph: Francisco Seco/AP
A man visits an exhibition at the National Art Museum of China on the first day after reopening in Beijing. The museum was closed from January until May
Photograph: Roman Pilipey/EPA
A visitor watches a dancer perform the installation piece, Our Labyrinth, at the Lee Mingwei exhibition at the Gropius Bau museum in Berlin, Germany
Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty
Visitors wear masks at the Kunst der Moderne exhibition at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany
Photograph: Alex Grimm/Getty
People visit the permanent exhibition of the Sukiennice National Museum of 19th-Century Polish Art in Kraków, Poland
Photograph: Omar Marques/Getty
Visitors look at Raphael’s Sistine Madonna in the Old Masters Gallery at the Zwinger palace complex in Dresden, Germany
Photograph: Matthias Rietschel/Getty