Musée du Louvre Expierences 72% Visitor Drop In 2020
The world’s most popular museum, the Musée du Louvre in Paris has seen visitor figures tumble by a staggering 70%. The final calculation of recorded visitors in 2020 would have been even more disastrous if the record-breaking Leonardo exhibition was removed from the equation.
Like many institutions, The Louvre was affected by the first Coronavirus lockdown, last Spring. Attendance figures tallied at 2.7 million visitors compared to 9.6 million in 2019. Despite the museum’s reopening again in the summer, with restricted visitor numbers, the institution lost around €90m in revenues. This resulted from the low volume of tourists visiting Paris, which makes up 3/4 of the Louvre’s entry figures.