Astoria's Noguchi Museum Reopens To The Public

Maya Kaufman
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ASTORIA, QUEENS — The Noguchi Museum reopened to the general public Wednesday.

Admission to the Astoria museum, which was founded and designed by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, is by reservation only in accordance with coronavirus-related guidelines and visitors will be required to wear face coverings.

The current exhibitions — "The Sculptor and the Ashtray, Composition for Idlewild Airport" and "Noguchi: Body–Space Devices" — are being extended through May 2021.

The café will be closed and the museum shop has temporarily moved to the building's lower-level studio to give shoppers more space for social distancing.

The Noguchi Museum is among a growing number of New York City museums that have reopened in the last month, including the Queens Museum.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave indoor cultural institutions the green light to welcome back visitors as of Aug. 24, as long as they observed strict capacity limits and require face coverings.

This article originally appeared on the Astoria-Long Island City Patch