Uffizi Galleries, 20,000 visitors in two weeks of reopening

Almost 20,000 people in 14 days. This is the balance of the last, short, reopening of the Uffizi Gallery, which returned to welcome visitors on January 21 last (after the longest closure of the museum since the end of the Second World War, 77 days) and from tomorrow, again inaccessible. to the public, due to the return to the orange zone of Tuscany. To be exact, 18,146 people entered the museum in the actual two weeks of ‘reactivation’ (weekends and Mondays, the traditional stop day of the complex, must be excluded from the calculation of the total days). After the 7,300 visitors in the first six days of opening in January, 1,453 came to the Uffizi on 2 February, 1,085 on 3, 1,215 on 4, 1,734 on 5, 944 on 9, 969 on 10, 1,417 on 11; finally, 2,029 on 12, last Friday, the last opening date and daily record for the entire period.

Uffizi director Eike Schmidt comments: “ Article link https://www.italy24news.com/en/2021/02/uffizi-galleries-20000-visitors-in-two-weeks-of-reopening.html

The numbers of the latest reopening confirm the strong desire of citizens for culture. We hope that the new closure will not last long. Just in these days a study by the University of Berlin has been released according to which the museums and theaters with reduced coexistence are public places with the lowest risk of contagion: a much lower risk than supermarkets, shops and restaurants. Art and culture are essential for everyone! “.

From tomorrow, the third period of closure for the Galleria begins from the beginning of the pandemic: the first started with the general lockdown on 8 March 2020 and lasted until 2 June; the second started on November 5, 2020 and ended on January 20, 2021.