{"id":87628,"date":"2022-08-19T18:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=87628"},"modified":"2022-08-19T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:03:18","slug":"the-closure-of-all-italian-museums-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/the-closure-of-all-italian-museums-is-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"The closure of all Italian museums is possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uffizi Gallery director warns of mass shutdowns due to staff shortages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Italian museums may be forced to shut down as visitor numbers return to pre-pandemic levels, Uffizi Gallery Director Eike Schmidt warned in an interview with Italy&#8217;s ANSA news agency on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Italian museums, staff levels are continually declining, and Schmidt warned, &#8220;If we don&#8217;t find a solution, we&#8217;re all going to close, even the biggest ones.&#8221; According to him, the next government in Italy must \u201cresolve the staffing problems in museums and other cultural places\u201d as soon as possible after the September 25 general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the last month, Italian eco-activists managed to slip past security guards and glue themselves to Sandro Botticelli&#8217;s painting &#8216;Primavera&#8217; to call for the abandonment of fossil fuels, drawing international attention to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uffizi Gallery director warns of mass shutdowns due to staff shortages Italian museums may be forced to shut down as visitor numbers return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87630,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87628\/revisions\/87630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}