The Humboldt Museum re-opened its doors to the public on July 7 (Angie Rolheiser/northeastNOW Staff).

By Aaron Schulze

Museums Re-Opening

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Jul 9, 2020 | 5:13 PM

Museums could resume operations on June 29 as part of Phase Four of Re-Open Saskatchewan, but not every community’s history gatekeeper were ready to re-open.

In Nipawin and Tisdale, both museums remain closed. On Wednesday, July 8, the Tisdale and District Museum announced they would remain closed until further notice. Meanwhile, the Nipawin and District Living Forestry Museum remains temporarily closed but will decide within the upcoming two weeks on whether they’ll re-open for the summer or not.

However, some museums have opened their doors. Melfort and District Museum re-opened on July 6 for self-guided tours, and the Humboldt and District Museum and Gallery re-opened on July 7.

Jennifer Fitzpatrick, the City of Humboldt’s Director of Cultural Services, said a few of the museum’s interactive spaces are removed to follow provincial health guidelines, but the first three days back in business have been smooth.

“As we go forward, we’ll be assessing the programming we would have normally done,” Fitzpatrick said. “May and June are our busy school tour months, so we missed the students but understandably so. We need to plan some of our regular events and see if they’re going to be cancelled or if there’s another way we can do community engagement.

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“We will be limiting the occupancy as people come in. That will be at the front desk and people will be made aware of that as they come in. We want to make sure we’ll be increasing all our sanitization based on the amount of people. It has not been too difficult at this point.”

While the operating process has changed, some things will remain the same. The Humboldt Museum has a gallery called Critical Links up until Sept. 25 and the Water Tower will be re-opened as of July 10.

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