Pandemic heritage squared: international project + NGV Triennial

Eager to stay connected to their communities in spite of The Pandemic, museums around the world have been reviewing, tweaking or radically changing their processes and outputs. And now, to be COVID-safe and reopen, museums are redefining internal spaces and visitor access to accommodate social distancing. In a way, The Pandemic has been an exercise in disaster preparedness, just not the kind that most of us in the heritage or museum sectors expect to deal with. My sense is that it’s made us think more laterally about who can engage with an institution and a collection, how we can make this happen globally as well as locally – how we can support one another, professionally and personally, right around the world.

You can read here about some of the approaches to pandemic heritage internationally and at home at the NGV.

Hidden Liotard IV (after Portrait of Joachim Rendorp by Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1757, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam),Photocollage by Volker Hermes, 2020©www.volkerhermes.de @volker.hermes