An Italian Renaissance study will be closed to visitors because it is too small to allow for social distancing. Timed tickets will be scanned by hand-held devices in the Great Hall. And, for the first time, there will be valet parking for bicycles, since many people are avoiding mass transit. It is tempting to hope that all will be business as usual when the Metropolitan Museum of Art finally swings open its Fifth Avenue doors to the general public on Saturday, after five months of closure because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Source: New York Times August 25, 2020 16:53 UTC