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The museum’s president said the diversity of visitors could well be reduced by 80%. This can also mean an easier view of the Mona Lisa, if you can get there.
By Farah Nayeri
The Louvre Museum in Paris will reopen on 6 July after a 16-week closure that has cost 40 million euros.
In the year, the world’s largest museum welcomes 10 million visitors in 925,000 square feet of hoaxes open to the public.
When the museum reopens, 70% can be accessed, adding primary galleries of French and Italian paintings, sculpture courses and the Egyptian antiquities section. But because France’s borders are closed so far for travellers living outdoors in the European Union, the diversity of visitors can be just a fragment of what they are in the h8 summer season.
While France closed, the museum operated from home through its president, Jean-Luc Martinez, an expert in ancient Greek sculpture since 2013. He spoke on the phone with the New York Times in mid-June. The following verbal exposure has been repositioned and condensed:
What is your challenge when reopening?
Reasbound the public. At the Louvre, it’s quite easy, as the spaces are huge, and thanks to the net sale of tickets, we are able to control the diversity of other Incoming Americans. Visitors can safely queue at the entrance, and the mask may be mandatory for visitors over 11 years of age.
What will the Mona Lisa see?
We renovated this gallery and opened it last fall. We have brought lines and deceptions among any of the guests that would allow museum visitors to approach the painting. So far, other Americans have crowded the Mona Lisa. From now on, guests will return to two queues for approximately 10 to 1 minute. Then, any of the users is guaranteed to stand in front of the Mona Lisa and look at it from a distance of about 10 feet. We want the assembly with the Mona Lisa to be a special moment.
But he’ll prefer a lot less visitors to the pandemic.
Yes. Normally, 7% of our visitors come on average from abroad. This steady percentage increases to 80 consistent with the penny in the summer. Of those visitors, 1.five million are American and 800,000 to 900,000 Chinese. If Europe’s borders with anything else in the world don’t seem open this summer, see an 80% drop in visitor diversity.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, we lost 40% of our visitors and took 3 years to get back to normal. After the 201 terrorist attacks five in France and Europe, we had another 40% drop, but everything was normalized after a year.
This time, we don’t know what’s going to happen. At worst, it will take us 3 years to get back to our overall guest levels.
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