Tomorrow, the Louvre Museum in Paris will reopen its doors tomorrow with a minimum capacity, and will take all possible precautions, but it will miss the many American and Asian tourists who used to visit the largest museum in the world, and it is more attractive to visitors.
The museum president and director, Jean-Luc Martinez, said that the crisis of the Corona virus has caused the museum to date more than 40 million euros, and expected that the financial difficulties will continue for three years. Residents of the Greater Paris region.
Not all parts of the museum will be available for visits, as the sections that will be opened to the public are limited to 70% of the total area of 45 thousand square meters, including the Egyptian Antiques Department, while the sections that are difficult to control movement will remain closed. And Martinez made it clear during a press conference held last week that the museum will miss 80% of its fans this year. The number of visitors will not exceed 20-30% of the number we received in the summer of 2019, i.e. 4000 to 10,000 visitors per day at most. Time reservations are now available online from June 15. As of June 24, reservations of this type amounted to 12 thousand, most of them for dates during the month of July.
Preventive measures are observed requiring visitors to place masks, marking the paths of visits with signs, preventing the visitor from going back, and making the exit final. In front of the Mona Lisa painting - where tourists from all over the world used to take souvenir photos - signs were placed on the floor indicating the places where visitors were allowed to stand to take selfies.
40 million euros museum losses due to Corona.
The museum is the largest in the world, and the most attractive to visitors.