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The Louvre Museum announced this Friday that it will close its doors this afternoon and indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"In accordance with government guidelines , the Louvre Museum and the Eugène-Delacroix National Museum will close this Friday, March 13 at 6:00 p.m. until further notice," the institution said in a statement.

He also explained that they will return the money to people who have bought a ticket for the next few days.

In addition, the temporary exhibitions dedicated to the German artist Albrecht Altdorfer, scheduled for April 23, and that of The Body and the Soul. From Donatello to Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance sculptures , due to open on May 6, have been postponed until new dates to be announced later.

French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe on Friday lowered the maximum number of people allowed in any concentration to 100 to slow the progression of COVID-19, compared to 1,000 previously imposed, but public transport will not be closed.

Other cultural institutions reacted to the new Executive measure, such as the Comédie Française, which has also canceled all its performances until a new order, and the Toulouse Latin American Film Festival has canceled its edition, which was to be held from March 20 to 29.

Also in the United States, culture locks itself in fear of disease: Broadway theaters turned off their lights on Thursday and will be closed until the week of April 13, TodayTix , the most popular Broadway ticket portal, confirmed.

It will be the largest closure of the world's most famous theater district since 2007, when a strike by theater employees interrupted the shows em > for 19 days.

Also in New York, the Metropolitan Museum, the largest in the world, with some seven million annual visitors, closed all its facilities today until further notice. So did the New York Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ), the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, among others.

Lastly, Disney Parks has announced the closing of this weekend and throughout the month of the two amusement parks in the United States (both Florida and California), as well as Disneyland Paris Resort located in France.

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