As museums reopen across the world, are people ready to go back to cultural institutions?

Visitors wearing face masks stand apart as they view 'Irises, 1914-17' by Claude Monet a the National Portrait Gallery in London. Photo: AP

As museums and galleries are emerging from their coronavirus lockdowns, most are still puzzling over how to reconfigure their spaces in line with new health and safety regulations. Uncertainty also remains whether people will actually visit cultural institutions in the coming weeks.

At a time when research suggests that nearly 13% of museums worldwide may never reopen, American Civil War Museum CEO Christy Coleman took to Twitter to ask potential museum-goers "what would it take for you to feel comfortable visiting your local organisation?"