In front of the Mona Lisa, marks on the floor sought to ensure that people kept their distance while taking selfies with Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece. PARIS, FRANCE -- The world's most visited museum, the Louvre in Paris, reopened Monday after nearly four months of coronavirus closure, with a restricted number of visitors enjoying a rare chance to view the "Mona Lisa" without the usual throngs.
But galleries in which social distancing is more difficult, about a third of the total, will remain off-limits and visitor numbers were capped at 500 per half-hour in a bid to reduce contact between people and lower coronavirus transmission risk.Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox
The museum will not get any anywhere near the 9.6 million visitors it hosted last year -- down from a record 10 million in 2018. Nearly three-quarters of its visitors in a normal year are from abroad.For Nicole Lamy, a 21-year-old visiting from Brussels, the limit on ticket sales was "an "opportunity to see the Mona Lisa up close and not in a crowd. It's a bit selfish but I think I'm lucky with my first visit to the Louvre.
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