Coronavirus and Museum Resilience: Some Preliminary Observations

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3-25-2020

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"The rapid spread of COVID-19 has led to virtually all UK museums being closed. The issue at hand is whether these temporary closures may become permanent, and which museums are likely to be the most resilient, both in the short and long term... These closures took place under very different circumstances to those we face today. Never before has the entire UK museum sector shutdown in this way, challenging the basic operating model of attracting visitors to physical sites. Here we consider what light our data might shed on the current situation."

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This blog post was originally published on the Mapping Museums blog in March 2020.

This scholarship is part of the Chapman University COVID-19 Archives.

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