The coronavirus has upended the economy, and museums are no exception. How will the pandemic impact their management methods? What will be the repercussions on their organisation, scientific offer and role?
Cité internationale de la tapisserie, in Aubusson.
© Cité Internationale De La Tapisserie
Does the visitor make the museum? Museums worldwide have closed, depriving them of their main source of revenue: ticket sales. These accounted for €87 m of the Louvre’s income in 2018. At that rate, the estimated loss of revenue after four months of closure can be put at €29 m—and tourists will not be coming back anytime soon. The OECD forecasts that global tourism will plummet by 50 to 70% by the end of the year. Museums closed to the local public expect to pull their chestnuts out of the fire, just as they did after the terrorist attacks. "We’ll limit the damage," says Christophe Leribault, director of the Petit Palais, where French visitors account for two-thirds of the total. But ticket sales are not everything. According to a survey by the independent…
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