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In 2020, the number of monthly visitors to State museums and similar cultural institutions in Italy declined sharply over the previous year, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In March 2020, the Italian government put in place a national lockdown to contain the spread of the virus. During the lockdown, cultural institutions were closed, thus resulting in a 100 percent drop in March 2020 over the same month of 2019. As the lockdown was gradually eased in May, this scenario improved during the summer, though a significant year-on-year decline was still recorded between July and September. As the number of COVID-19 infections rose again in October, the government imposed new restrictions. In December 2020, the number of visitors to State museums and similar facilities then fell by 94.8 percent over 2019.