Museums are preparing to receive art and culture lovers with a "Moroccan breath"

A group of the kingdom's museums are preparing to open their doors again, in the face of art and archeology lovers, and to learn about civilizations and cultures, after nearly five months of forced closure as a result of the Corona pandemic.

The National Museum of Museums circulated a notice indicating the imminent opening of its museums, setting two main dates, 27 July and the tenth of August next, to receive the public "in a safe museum experience."

To "assist musums to receive the best conditions, in order to limit the spread of the" Covid-19 "virus, the Foundation recommends" reserving the place before attendance, because a limited number of visitors are to be received, to ensure physical distance ", while emphasizing" The necessity of wearing a protective mask (muzzle), commitment to checking the temperature at entry, and respecting the distance between the meters, between visitors.

The museum has no life except for its visitors.

Mahdi Qutbi, President of the National Museum of Museums, says that reopening museums is "of significant importance", and increases: "We have worked, for five years, to make people loyal to visiting museums, and we have continued to bring museums to their homes (remote exhibitions during quarantine), We want to continue this, and increase the number of loyal to the museums, because the museum lives only with its visitors, and with the exhibitions it presents and receives. "

"We decided to open the museums while respecting the spacing and the necessities of health safety, by applying government health directives with the letter, in order to preserve the health of people, as people must call the reservation before arriving, while wearing masks, and they will find A device waiting for them to measure their temperature, while sterilizing their hands and spacing, as in other facilities. "

The head of the National Museum of Museums stresses the essential role "of the museum and culture because we have a need for exchange. Just as artwork needs to be seen, which takes time, with the need to be involved with a group of people who watch it, and for this we find ourselves compelled to give instructions to the guards." , So that every work looks at one person, no more. "

Commenting on the change in the programming of all the museums of the Foundation this year, the commentator continues, saying: "We will resume all of them with the entry in the year 2021," the "Delacroix Gallery", and the exhibition of adult photographers, and we will show our rich and artistic diversity in museums, as they will all have a Moroccan soul, and it will be organized in the Mohamed Museum The sixth, upon its opening, is an exhibition of the history of formation in Morocco from the Moroccan groups, and then an exhibition about Gilali Gharbawi, and from then to the end of December, Moroccan art will be exhibited to be appreciated and known by visitors, and rejoice at the rediscovery of our modern and contemporary heritage.

On the future of the country's museums after the pandemic, Qutbi stresses his "great confidence", after he saw "the testimonies of people looking to see museums open, and a number of wrote inquires about when the museums will open," and then he prettiered: "I am very optimistic, and I think that the museums have I entered the Moroccan Hadith dictionary. "

Measures, exhibitions and anticipation:

Anas al-Sidrati, governor of the Museum of History and Civilizations, says that access to the museum will be limited, after reopening its doors on the tenth day of August next, while measuring the temperature of its visitors at its entrance, and facilitating their wandering between its spaces on a special path in which the inside and outside do not meet.

Sidrati adds: "Spaces will be limited in number, which is what the guards will notice, taking care to be spaced at least a meter between visitors, and not to touch the touch screens", and increases its alert to the need to "wear a muzzle, and stand outside if the line is long."

The advertiser reminds that it is possible to make an appointment in advance for a visit by phone or by email to the museum, especially for groups of more than two, to "avoid crowding and crowding."

In turn, Abdel Aziz Al Idrisi, director of the Mohamed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, lists a number of preventive measures taken by the museum; Including keeping the distance between visitors, ensuring that a limited number of people enter the exhibition halls, mandatory putting the thermometer in the door, mandatory sterilization before entering, while wearing a protective mask, and violating the entry path of the exit path.

Al-Idrisi adds, in his statement to the newspaper, that the museum recommends that when opening its doors starting on August 10, it is necessary to "contact before the attendance if there are cohorts in order to organize and program, and in order to avoid overcrowding in the doors and exhibition halls."

It is expected that visitors will receive two exhibitions, according to Al-Idrisi, the first of which is on “The History of Formation in Morocco, from Ben Ali Al-Rabati until now, which is: Moroccan Formers in National Groups”, which is made up of the two groups of the Ministry of Culture and the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco that the museum and the Foundation’s group reach. National Museums. "

Al-Idrisi adds: "These groups will gather in homogeneity, to hold an exhibition that chronicles the history of art in Morocco from the first exhibition held by a Moroccan artist outside Morocco in 1916 until now. Through its stages. "

And the speaker increases: "The second exhibition is a continuation of part of an exhibition held in the" Rabat Biennial "and it was called" the forest ", humanity in the concept of human conflict, and in its biological concept, and it is a" white card "for the artist Mohammed Al-Baz, who set the path of this exhibition, its theme and all related aspects with it".

The director of the Mohamed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art appreciates that these two exhibitions "enable to give an integrated picture of Moroccan art, whether in dyeing, sculpting, or installation, and will enable them to stand up to the concept of modern and contemporary art."