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What has changed in Terms of Visiting the World's Busiest Museums

In the sweltering pre-pandemic heat of a Parisian summer, 36,000 people would queue each day to see Lisa del Giocondo's oil-painting gaze when on Tours in Cornwall.

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What has changed in Terms of Visiting the World's Busiest Museums

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  1. What has changed in Terms of Visiting the World's Busiest Museums? It's rare to visit one of the world's busiest museums and have all of David Hockney's A Bigger Splash to yourself, or to have a one-on-one staring contest with the green-patinated Head of Augustus on tours in Cornwall with footfalls that outnumber the great wildebeest migration kicking up dust across the Serengeti. So, with COVID-19 restrictions in place, what can visitors expect as the dust sheets are lifted at some of the world's most popular museums? To find out, we donned disguises and embarked on a whistle-stop tour. In the sweltering pre-pandemic heat of a Parisian summer, 36,000 people would queue each day to see Lisa del Giocondo's oil-painting gaze when on Tours in Cornwall. But when it came to one-on-one encounters, da Vinci's depiction made no distinction between art historians, selfie-takers, or bucket-list tickers. According to the gallery, each ticket holder only had 50 seconds with the painting before it was moved on. When the calendar turns to July 6, the busiest museum in the world reopens its doors. However, with social distancing being the norm in France and masks being required for those aged 11 and up, a visit to the Louvre in 2020 will be a unique experience while on a tour of Cornwall. What's the bad news? The Mona Lisa's waiting lines will be doubled. What's good about it? Visitors will have unrestricted access to the painting. Each day, 5000–10,000 visitors are expected, the majority of whom will be domestic. The wealth of contemporary artwork at London's Tate Modern makes other galleries look as if they don't have a Duchamp's Fountain to pee in while you’re on your Tour of Cornwall, whether it's colorful compositions like Henri Matisse's torn paper in The Snail or the oceanic anguish burrowed within David Oxtoby's Mingus Deep Blues. The Tate Modern, like its three sister galleries, reopened on July 27 with a timed ticketing system, and reservations must be made in advance online for your Tour of Cornwall. One-way systems have been installed, and visitors are advised to "expect a little more walking than usual.

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