When the Museum Closed
No. 87 MAY 2025
With its doors closed for 137 days, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) in Lisbon opened up to the public like never before. Between march 2020 and may 2021, when COVID-19 kept the whole country in their homes, the institution continued working online, making content available in a successful new communication strategy.
An account of the achievements of a team forced to reinvent methodologies, languages and resources, this book portrays this very real test of the workings of a museum. A focus on education and entertainment, simplifying content and listening to what artists themselves had to say were some of the avenues explored. The broader public thus reached attests to the importance of this record of when the pandemic forced people into flexibility and innovation.
With its doors closed for 137 days, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) in Lisbon opened up to the public like never before. Between march 2020 and may 2021, when COVID-19 kept the whole country in their homes, the institution continued working online, making content available in a successful new communication strategy.
An account of the achievements of a team forced to reinvent methodologies, languages and resources, this book portrays this very real test of the workings of a museum. A focus on education and entertainment, simplifying content and listening to what artists themselves had to say were some of the avenues explored. The broader public thus reached attests to the importance of this record of when the pandemic forced people into flexibility and innovation.
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Dimensions
7 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-9243-14-9