Three new exhibitions - "Liza Donnelly: Comic Relief," "Rose O'Neill: Artist and Suffragette," and "Norman Rockwell: Murder in Mississippi," will open on July 12. Patrons will also need to register in advance to visit Kidspace and "James Turrell: Into the Light." "It will be a completely different vibe." Of course, they will be outside and relatively small and highly distanced," Thompson said. We're going to test the waters with a members-only concert on July 11. "We're also dipping our toes, very carefully into the performing arts arena with our first public concert on July 18. The ability to bring back the remaining staff members will rely on ticket sales. We won't be back at 100 percent, but we'll have a solid 75 to 80 percent of our roster of employees back." "On Monday and Tuesday, we'll be welcoming back 34 or so folks, many of whom will be familiar faces. "We added back another 25 or so about eight weeks ago and that enabled us to do the art installation work and the prep work to restructure the museum," he said. Thompson said a skeletal crew of 42 employees remained after the April layoffs. The museum laid off 120 of its 165 employees in April.
They've been toiling away with the artists, who can't wait to show their work to the public." "We've been able to do this because we won one of those PPE loans and were able to begin hiring back some of our colleagues some eight weeks ago. on July 11," Thompson said during a phone interview. "I think we'll be unveiling 100,000-square feet of new art at 10 a.m. Croix's "How to Move a Landscape," in the museum's triple-height gallery. Mass MoCA will open "Kissing through a Curtain," which was originally scheduled to open March 21, along with two new exhibitions, Wendy Red Star's "Apsaalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird," in Kidspace, and Blane De St.
Admission tickets for the Norman Rockwell Museum go on sale on at noon Tuesday at nrm.org.Īll three institutions will debut new work in their respective galleries when they reopen. A members-only gallery preview and concert, by SayReal, will take place on July 11.Īdmission tickets for The Clark go on sale Tuesday at. The first live performance for the general public, Treya Lam in concert, will take place July 18. Mass MoCA admission tickets are available now at. Admission will be allocated on a timed basis to provide staggered entry, consistent with the commonwealth's reduced capacity guidelines. "We are committed to providing the safest experiences possible and have been working hard to ensure that our visitors will be comfortable in returning under new norms."Īdvance ticket reservations will be required at each museum. We strongly believe in the restorative power of art and cannot wait to share our galleries and grounds with our guests," the statement read.
"We are delighted to be able to reopen our doors and to welcome back our friends, neighbors, and new visitors. In a joint statement, Laurie Norton Moffatt, director and CEO of the Rockwell, Olivier Meslay, director of The Clark, and Mass MoCA director Joseph Thompson, welcomed the opportunity to reopen their doors, which have been shuttered since the governor closed all nonessential businesses in March.