Webinar: Heritage and Pandemics – Reopening and Adapting Heritage Places During a Pandemic
Republished by ECBN from: ICCROM
COVID 19 Pandemic has forced abrupt closure of cultural heritage sites and institutions, thereby not only depriving people the opportunity to enjoy and experience their heritage but also causing huge losses in the revenues and disrupting the livelihoods of many people who are directly and directly dependent on cultural heritage for their subsistence. In the post lockdown period, these heritage places are slowly opening up in the ‘new normal’ that is determined by norms aimed at preventing the spread of this highly contagious infection. In this situation, it is important to ask, what measures are to be taken when reopening a heritage site or a cultural institution such as a museum? How do we adapt them to the new requirements such as social distancing and need for quarantine places and shelters for the homeless?
The webinar discusses all these challenges through examples from Honduras, United States and India. Some of the questions discussed are based on the testing of ICCROM’s knowledge tools in Honduras and USA.
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