Here's how fine art museums are dealing with the COVID-19-pandemic - Business Insider

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Holograms, hashtags and hand sanitizer: here's how fine art museums are dealing with the pandemic – aided by stimulus efforts and wealthy backers

. It included a social media push on all channels with the hashtag #MuseumFromHome, which is its premier offering for the foreseeable future.

Some institutions receive portions of their funding from corporate donors or government grants, but many still rely on paying visitors. At least a few sought support from the Paycheck Protection Program, part of the US government stimulus efforts to keep businesses from shutting down or laying off workers.

In California, SFMoMA and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art both accepted loans in the range of $5 million to $10 million, according to data released in July. Francois Lenoir/Reuters Some museums won't be able to see the total effects of 2020 until they put together their 2021 budgets, said M. Özalp Birol, who oversees thein Istanbul, Turkey, as the general manager of the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation, Culture and Art Enterprises, told Business Insider.

 

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