After the coronavirus crisis forced museums around the world to shutter so as to mitigate the spread of the virus, some institutions are beginning to make tentative plans to reopen—albeit with some precautions. Some museums in Germany, for example, are requiring that visitors use credit cards instead of cash and that ticketing agents conduct business from behind plexiglass shields, while others in China have been instituting temperature checks for visitors to the museum. And still other institutions have planned measures for practicing social distancing within their gallery spaces, with local museum groups offering guidelines for how many people can be within certain areas a time.
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Below is a continually updated list, organized alphabetically by country, of major museums that have announced when they will open their doors to the public once again. Because of the rapidly evolving circumstances surrounding the pandemic, many opening dates are subject to change.
Updated: October 16, 2020, 3:00 p.m.
Australia
Queensland Art Gallery (June 22)
Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland (August 7)
Austria
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (July 1)
The Belvedere, Vienna (July 1)
MAK, Vienna (July 1)
Austria has announced that museums and cultural institutions can reopen as early as mid-May, though some state-run institutions have said they will postpone opening until July 1
Belgium
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (May 19)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Old Masters Museum, Brussels (May 19)
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (May 22)
Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (July 2)
National Gallery of Canada (July 18)
Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (July 16)
China
Shanghai Museum
Power Station of Art, Shanghai
China Art Museum, Shanghai
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (May 21)
Finland
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (June 18)
France
Louvre, Paris (July 6)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (June 15)
The Giacometti Institute, Paris (May 15)
Musée Bourdelle, Paris (June 16)
Petit Palais, Paris (June 16)
Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (July)
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (June 15)
Château de Versailles (June 6)
Musée d’Orsay, Paris (June 23)
Centre Pompidou, Paris (July 1)
Grand Palais, Paris (July 1)
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (September 23)
Germany
Altes Museum, Berlin (May 4)
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (May 4)
Bode Museum, Berlin (May 4)
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (May 30)
Haus der Kunst, Munich (May 11)
Dresden State Art Collections (May 4)
Museum Ludwig, Cologne (May 5)
Italy
Galleria Borghese, Rome (May 19)
Musei Capitolini, Rome (May 19)
Fondazione Prada, Milan (June 5)
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (May 21)
Castello di Rivoli (May 19)
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples (May 18)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (May 18)
Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (May 6)
Kyocera Museum of Art (May 6)
As of April 23, these dates were subject to change depending on the state of the outbreak in Japan in May
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (July 31)
Spain
Museo Picasso Málaga (May 26)
Sweden
Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Malmö (June 16)
Switzerland
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen (May 11)
Kunsthaus Zurich (May 15)
Kunsthalle Basel (May 12)
Kunstmuseum Basel (June 8)
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (June 2)
United Arab Emirates
Sharjah Art Foundation (June 26)
United Kingdom
Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives (July 27)
Whitechapel Gallery, London (July 14)
National Gallery, London (July 8)
British Museum (August 27)
United States
Alabama
Birmingham Museum of Art (October 6)
California
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach (June 12)
LA Plaza de Cultural de Artes, Los Angeles (July 6)
Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana (July 16)
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (September)
Colorado
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (June 24)
Aspen Art Museum (July 1)
Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art (August 18)
Connecticut
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield (June 27)
Illinois
The Art Institute of Chicago (July)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (July
Louisiana
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (June 1–14)
Maryland
Glenstone Museum (June 4)
Baltimore Museum of Art (September 16)
Massachusetts
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (July 16)
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (July 11)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (September 26)
Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts (July 10)
Minnesota
Walker Art Center (July 16)
Minneapolis Institute of Art (July 16)
Missouri
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City (September 12)
Nebraska
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha (August 7)
New Jersey
Newark Museum of Art (November 7)
Mana Contemporary, Jersey City (October 18)
New Mexico
SITE Santa Fe (September 11)
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art (August 29)
Whitney Museum of American Art (September 3)
Museum of Modern Art (August 27)
New-York Historical Society (September 11)
El Museo del Barrio (September 12)
Brooklyn Museum (September 12)
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor (July 15)
Magazzino Italian Art, Philipstown (July 10)
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill (August 7)
Dia Beacon (August 7)
Dia Bridgehampton (July 25)
North Carolina
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (September 9)
Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art (June 30)
Pennsylvania
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (June 29)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (June 29)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (September 6)
Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (May 23)
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (August 20)
Menil Collection, Houston (September 12)
Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Women in the Arts (August 1)