Cautious Reopening
May 19, Rome, Italy: Visitors wearing face masks tour the Capitoline Museum. As International Museum Day 2020 was marked worldwide on May 18, Italy started to gradually reopen some of its cultural sites after over two months of lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. To reduce the impact of the pandemic and reinvent the museum experience for the COVID-19 era, dozens of Italian museums and many other major museums around the world, including the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, the British Museum in London and the Palace Museum in Beijing, have launched various virtual tours, which have opened a new channel for the public to access culture and art.