It’s only Monday, and we already have some good news for animal lovers and parents who have been cooped up with their small children for months: Two Smithsonian institutions will reopen to visitors this Friday, July 24.

The National Zoo in D.C. and the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., will reopen with crowd limits and new health and safety measures in place.

All visitors will need to have free timed-entry passes to get in. Generally, the process will work in a similar way to the pre-coronavirus ticketing system at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Each person will be able to reserve up to six passes at a time.

The Zoo will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily and will issue 5,000 times passes per day. The Udvar-Hazy Center will be open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. It will release about 1,500 passes per day.

All other Smithsonian museums remain closed. No other opening dates have been announced.

In a press release, the Smithsonian said the first two reopenings will provide an opportunity to improve new processes and learn from the visitor experience, with the goal of opening additional museums in the following months.

The Smithsonian selected the Zoo and Udvar-Hazy as reopening guinea pigs because the two facilities’ sizes and designs allow for effective social distancing. The Zoo is an outdoor park that spans 163 acres, and the Udvar-Hazy Center’s two hangars total more than 300,000 square feet. Both locations have ample parking available to visitors — a boon during this time of decreased public transit options.

“As a public entity, we thrive on serving our visitors and making our collections readily available to them, virtually and in person,” Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian’s Secretary, said in the release. “However, the safety and well-being of our staff, visitors and volunteers come first and are paramount, so we are taking a deliberate, phased and cautious approach to reopening.”

Visitors to either location who are 6-years-old and older will be required to wear face coverings, including while outside at the Zoo. Employees have set up hand-sanitizing stations, increased the frequency of their cleaning processes and put some one-way paths in place.

Restrooms at both facilities will be open, as will the Zoo’s outdoor concessions stands and gift shops. The concessions stands and gift shops inside the Udvar-Hazy Center will be closed.

People can only enter the Zoo through its entrance on Connecticut Avenue NW.

Some other non-Smithsonian museums have already begun to reopen. The Museum of the Bible and the International Spy Museum unlocked their doors in late June, and the National Gallery of Art reopens the ground floor of its West Building today.