{"id":21562,"date":"2020-06-21T21:48:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T17:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=21562"},"modified":"2020-06-21T21:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T17:48:43","slug":"louvre-abu-dhabi-to-re-open-june-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/06\/21\/louvre-abu-dhabi-to-re-open-june-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre Abu Dhabi to re-open June 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tickets can now be purchased on Louvre Abu Dhabi&#8217;s website ahead of the museum&#8217;s reopening this Wednesday, June 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors will once again be able to experience Louvre Abu Dhabi&#8217;s world-class collection and view its latest international exhibition, Furusiyya: The Art of Chivalry between East and West, which will run from July 1 and extended until October 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entry will be free for guests under the age of 18, as part of the museum&#8217;s mission to engage the young audiences and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manuel Rabat\u00e9, director of Louvre Abu Dhabi, assured that appropriate health and safety measures have been put in place &#8211; including thermal scanning, new opening hours, and limiting the number of visitors every hour. Masks and gloves will also be mandatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to giving our museum back to the community and resuming our physical role as a space for sharing our many stories of cultural connections. As we prepare to reopen, we are furthering our commitment to being a mindful museum &#8211; a concept that has always been a part of our DNA and is now more urgent than ever before,&#8221; said Rabat\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank our dedicated staff for their resilience and hard work to prepare for this moment. We are eager and excited to welcome back visitors soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the safety rules that the Louvre Abu Dhabi will be implementing are: &#8211; New opening hours: 10am &#8211; 6.30pm daily, closed on Monday. Last museum entry at 5:30pm &#8211; The number of visitors per hour will be limited to allow for social distancing &#8211; Tickets can be purchased only via Louvre Abu Dhabi&#8217;s website and must be booked for a specific arrival time slot. Once at the museum, visitors may visit for up to three hours &#8211; Temperatures of all visitors will be checked upon their arrival &#8211; Masks and gloves are required for all visitors throughout their stay at the museum &#8211; Only credit card or smart payments will be accepted at all museum outlets, including food and beverage sites and the boutique<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets can now be purchased on Louvre Abu Dhabi&#8217;s website ahead of the museum&#8217;s reopening this Wednesday, June 24. Visitors will once again be able to experience Louvre Abu Dhabi&#8217;s world-class collection and view its latest international exhibition, Furusiyya: The Art of Chivalry between East and West, which will run from July 1 and extended &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21564,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21562\/revisions\/21564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}