LONDON: Five thousand years of art and design history will be joined by some more modern items when London's Victoria and Albert museum reopens on Thursday - hand sanitiser dispensers and protective screens.
"We want people to enjoy themselves again after all these months of looking at screens - to go and see an artefact for yourself, to stand in front of an object, that's what's so important," said museum director Tristram Hunt. The 160-year-old museum, named after Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, has been modified to meet the demands of social distancing regulations designed to prevent the spread of a COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 46,000 people in Britain alone.
Hand sanitiser dispensers have been dotted around the sprawling, mosaic-floored building. The gift shop and cafe have been equipped with protective screens.A museum technician cleans the V&A Rotunda Chandelier by Dale Chihuly during preparations to reopen the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London, Britain, Aug 4, 2020.
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