'At some point, you get it again. then you just have to start paying again. Unless there will somehow be remission, but that is not the case for now.' For Paul Baltus, director of museum dome Amersfoort in C, a big challenge awaits if the intelligent lockdown will slowly be lifted. How can the Amersfoort museums reopen, and how will visitors come back to Amersfoort?
But even then, he says, it will take a long time to make up for the damage now incurred. 'Eventually, that money will have to come back. In the next 10 years, we are going to suffer the consequences, left or right.
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After all, it is not just about the overdue rent and property taxes, but also the costs incurred for exhibitions that are now postponed or cancelled. With a museum where you can only let in a fraction of the public, you will never make up for those start-up losses. Large exhibitions will also be difficult to realise in the future.
In this new podcast in collaboration with De Stadsbron in Amersfoort, we dive into the world of museums, perhaps the first cultural institutions to be allowed to reopen when the lockdown is relaxed.
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