Museum of Tomorrow celebrates first month of reopening after pandemic

The Rio de Janeiro City Hall, through the Municipal Department of Culture, is celebrating the first month since the reopening of the Museum of Tomorrow. Since September, when activities resumed, employees and the public have been instructed to strictly follow a series of preventive measures. The space, which once had more than 5 visitors per day, with up to 1200 at a time, now receives a maximum of only 300 people per hour.

“Visitors have not only respected the rules, but have also responded politely and empathetically when educators point out the signs or the correct distance. We have also noticed the role of the citizen visitor, the one who monitors and warns us if someone is carelessly breaking a rule. It is great to see these changes in behavior. People have also been asking a lot about the new information about the coronavirus that has been incorporated into the exhibition,” says Camila Oliveira, education coordinator at IDG/Museu do Amanhã.

Preventive measures adopted

Among the measures adopted are the use of sanitizing mats, provision of alcohol gel totems, temperature measurement of employees and the public at the entrance, signage of distancing between people, change in the route of the long-term exhibition and constant cleaning of interactive equipment.

In addition, the use of face masks is mandatory and the number of people inside the museum has been reduced to one third of its capacity. Tickets are sold online. Another advantage of the facility is its air conditioning system, which filters all the air every 20 minutes.

At Cosmos, the entrance to the exhibition where the public watches a film of approximately 5 minutes about the creation of the universe, the maximum capacity per session will be 30 people. The visiting route has been modified and, to avoid crowds in the corridors, once the visit has started, the public cannot return to the starting point.

Another change has been made to the days and hours of operation. The Museum is now only open from Thursday to Sunday, from 10 am to 17 pm. Admission costs R$26, with half-price tickets costing R$13. All free and half-price tickets required by law have been maintained. Below are the new features of the exhibition.

Updates to the long-term exhibition

The Museum of Tomorrow's long-term exhibition, with a narrative spanning five areas, has undergone several updates. Upon reopening, the public will be required to walk in one direction, with no possibility of turning back, to avoid crowds. Here are some of the changes:

COSMOS: The route to enter the first area of ​​the exhibition will be different and signposted to the public. Inside the room, now limited to 30 spectators, the experience of watching the video should provoke new sensations and reflections, guided by the experience of the pandemic, social isolation and the perspective of finitude.

EARTH: In this second part of the narrative, the interactive “Earth is Blue” was updated, which is located in the Matter Cube and shows images of the Planet seen by satellites. Photos of cities during the pandemic will be shown so that the public can see how the landscape of the cities changed during the forced quarantine. There are images of streets and places with a large circulation of people, such as Copacabana Beach, completely empty. The aim is to show the effects of the “pause” in different places, highlighting the planetary reach of the pandemic.

ANTHROPOCENE: In this central area of ​​the exhibition, the video Growing Understanding, which shows the history of the environmental movement from the 40s to the Paris Agreement in 2016, has been updated with information about what curator Luiz Alberto Oliveira has coined the “Coronacene.” For the curator, the pandemic is a symptom of the Anthropocene and has shown that humanity has increasingly advanced into remote places, misusing natural resources and threatening biodiversity, which causes imbalances and the emergence of epidemics.

TOMORROW: The area will bring updates to the Connected Cities and Biodiversity interactives, as well as two new videos. In Connected Cities, the public will have information on how the epidemic, which first broke out in Wuhan, China, spread around the world and became the pandemic that has already infected millions of people worldwide. A UN graph will show cases by continent, from January to July, starting in Asia and then spreading and growing over the weeks and months, across all continents.

In the Societies section, physician Jurema Werneck, current executive director of Amnesty International in Brazil, will address the social, economic and environmental impacts of the pandemic and its consequences on life in large cities. Another video, in the Planet section, features Fiocruz biologist Marcia Chame talking about the biological factors that influence the emergence of epidemics. The interactive Biodiversity section also includes information on the characteristics of the coronavirus, how it emerged and how it reached humans.

Tickets

With the ticket office closed and ticket sales only online, the queue to access the Museum will be outside, in the open air, and will have markings on the floor to help our visitors maintain a safe distance from each other.

There will be a totem at the entrance to validate the purchase, which must be made on an online platform: https://www.ingressorapido.com.br/event/34390-1/d/71245

 

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October 8th, 2020

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