By Thursday evening, around 4,500 visitors had already taken the opportunity to visit the museum, a restored, expanded and redesigned version of a previous museum at the same site, city officials said on Friday.

But as part of Germany’s sweeping new restrictions, Germany’s newest museum will join others across the country in closing again for the month of November.

“After the brilliant opening week, the extremely positive international press response and the great popularity we are enjoying, we find it more than difficult to restrict public access to our new museum,” museum director Mirjam Wenzel said.

However, the Jewish Museum will maintain its online exhibitions in English, which include a history of Anne Frank’s family and expressionist artist Ludwig Meidner.

Because the new restrictions limit cultural institutions but not businesses, the museum shop will also remain open and the museum’s kosher cafe will stay in business, albeit for takeaways only.

After closing in March, many museums and venues in Germany invested in hygiene measure in an effort to entice visitors back, installing Plexiglas panels, switching to online ticketing and organizing routine disinfecting of public spaces.

The number of coronavirus infections in Germany has risen sharply in recent weeks, along with most other European countries, and domestic travel and hotel stays in Germany have been limited.