The Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia will reopen on April 22, after having been closed for over a year due to the pandemic. Paying members of the hands-on children’s museum will be able to return two weeks before that on April 8.
The museum will be open four days a week, Thursday through Sunday. The hours will be limited to two daily time slots, a morning session (9 a.m. – 12 p.m.) and an afternoon session (1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.), with a closure in between for cleaning. The number of visitors to the museum’s historic Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park will be limited to 600 people per session, who must register in advance.
Over the summer, Please Touch cut its staff by 75%. CEO Trish Wellenbach said the staff has been partially brought back for the reopening. She plans to gradually increase both the hours of operation and employees, with the…
