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    The Guggenheim Bilbao reopens in COVID-hit Spain. For US museums, a template?

    by Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times Jun 08, 2020 4 minutes

    The Guggenheim Bilbao reopened on June 1 - the first major cultural institution in Spain to do so since coronavirus closures in mid-March - and the very first stop for the 80 visitors who came that day? Temperature checks upon arrival.

    With the coat check closed so as not to spread germs, mask-clad visitors carried their belongings on self-guided tours, using a Guggenheim app downloaded to their phones - just a few of the new safety measures in place at the art museum.

    "It's weird, in a way, we're operating under these new circumstances," said museum Director Juan Ignacio Vidarte. "But it's a first

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