The Louvre in Paris, the world's most visited museum and home to the Mona Lisa, will reopen on July 6 but with coronavirus restrictions in place and parts of the complex closed to visitors.

The Louvre has been closed since March 13 and this has already led "to losses of over 40 million euro," its director Jean-Luc Martinez said.

Among more than 10 million visitors in 2018, almost three-quarters were tourists.

"We have lost 80 percent of our public., 75 percent of our visitors were foreigners," Martinez said. "We will at best see 20 to 30 percent of our numbers recorded last summer - between 4,000 and 10,000 visitors daily at the most." 

According to its official website, since June 15, visitors have been able to book Louvre's tickets online. When it reopens on July 6, the entrance will be near the transparent pyramid with multiple separated queues. In addition, visitors have to book a visit time. Tickets can also be purchased at the museum on the same day if there are fewer visitors. However, advance booking is the only guarantee of admission.

To facilitate group tours, the Louvre can also receive groups of up to 25 people. Visitors will have to wear masks, there will be no snacks or cloakrooms available and the public will have to follow a guided path through the museum.

Positions have been marked in front of the Mona Lisa - where tourists routinely pose for selfies - to ensure social distancing.

Seventy percent of the museum's public areas will be open to the public. That means some collections and exhibition halls, such as Medieval and Renaissance French sculpture, other Renaissance art, 18th- and 19th-century art, and African, Asian, Oceanian and American art, are temporarily closed. The ground floor, which exhibits Islamic art, and the second floor, which exhibits French and Nordic paintings, are also closed.

After the success of its blockbuster Leonardo exhibition which closed earlier this year, the Louvre said its two exhibitions scheduled for spring and then postponed would now take place in the autumn.

These are on Italian sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo and the renaissance German master Albrecht Altdorfer.

France contributes 100 million Euros to the Louvre's 250 million euros annual budget and the museum must make up the rest, according to experts.

The Louvre has upped its virtual presence during the lockdown and said it was now the most followed museum in the world on Instagram with over four million followers.

Martinez is planning a revamp of the museum ahead of 2024, when Paris hosts the Olympic Games.

(With input from AFP)