Red, orange and yellow. These colors have become symbols of the restrictions on life in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among many things it has entailed — from closed shops to restrictions on movement, the tricolor system of epidemiological measures introduced in November has closed cultural institutions across the country. And that has included museums.

Since then, the governmental decree of January 14 made the regions of Tuscany, Campania, Sardinia, Basilicata, Molise and the province of Trento ‘yellow’ zones (areas with medium-low risk of COVID-19 infection). This meant that, in those zones, and only on weekdays, museums and archeological parks could reopen.