Museum workshops via Zoom and Google Meet in times of Lockdown. Three case studies: Maison Petit, Art Room and Granelli di Laboratorio

During the Covid-19 sanitary crisis, video communication platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet became essential to guarantee distance learning to school audiences. This essay aims to analyse how these tools were employed in the museum context to activate virtual workshops in a synchronic mode. The considered case studies are three: Maison Petit, offered by Musei Civici di Ancona; Art Room, launched by GAMeC-Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo; and Granelli di Laboratorio, proposed by The Egyptian Museum - Museo Egizio of Turin. The research focuses on the first wave of spring 2020, but it also describes changes and evolutions that occurred during the second wave of the pandemic.