Looking over the recent posts and threads, I know Versailles has typically closed on the strike days, and the Musée d'Orsay was closed on at least one of them. But by and large, what has been happening with museums on strike days? Do they open or open late? I saw that the Musée d'Orsay has proactively posted a message for the 11th: "Due to the national strike, we cannot guarantee that the museum will be fully or partially open on Saturday, February 11. In any case, the museum will close at 5pm (last access 4pm)." And it is great that they are doing that. But do smaller museums (Cluny, Carnavalet, Bibliothèque nationale de France) update their sites? Use social media? Or they don't bother because it is assumed they are open...?
Thanks!
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I would watch the Twitter feeds. The Orsay Tweeted yesterday (in regard to yesterday) that only the fifth-floor Impressionists gallery and the main nave on the ground floor would be open. They also specifically underlined that the Van Gogh and post-Impressionist galleries would be closed.
On the fifth, they basically did the "we can't guarantee we will be open on the 7th"