Verger (National Roman Museum): "It's not time lost. Lots of work even with closed museums."

In an interview with ANSA, the new director of the National Roman Museum, Stéphane Verger, commented on the closure of museums and exhibitions under the new Dpcm: "I come from France, where the lockdown has already been in effect for a week due to the second wave of the pandemic. I expected this, but first of all the health situation matters. It is the doctors and those who have been dealing with the pandemic for six months who have to give the directions. It is not my place to say whether it is right or not. It is such an uncertain period. The reasonable thing is to follow the decisions made. Hopefully, they will be good decisions that will restrict the contagions. We have to cope together looking forward to the time when it will reopen to everyone’s great joy."

However, he added that"it will not be a lost time,“ because ”in museums in general, and in the National Roman Museum in particular, there is so much to do to rethink the collections, the exhibition routes, the restoration of works. Behind closed doors work continues, and then the result of this activity can be shown.“ He goes on to say that ”a museum needs to be present on social media, as it has been in recent months. We have inaugurated the new site that we will implement in the coming weeks with virtual tours, intervention of specialists, presentations of works. Good things can come out of bad, a new way of presenting collections, experimenting with new paths."

Stéphane Verger is among the new directors of the thirteen major museums that had vacant directorates, whose names were announced in September 2020.

Verger (National Roman Museum): "It's not time lost. Lots of work even with closed museums."

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