What’s more, the disruption comes just months after President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a sweeping decade-long plan to rescue the Louvre from precisely the problems now boiling over — water leaks, ...

The Musée du Louvre expansion will build a new entrance and dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, to be selected in an ...

Architects are being asked to submit proposals for a new entrance for the world’s most visited museum — and to create a new ...

A strike on June 16 that left visitors waiting outside the Mona Lisa’s home shows change is needed more urgently than Macron has promised.

The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, remained shuttered Monday — not by war but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institution in Paris is ...

The museum's director, Laurence des Cars, and the chief architect of France's historic monuments, François Chatillon, speak ...

Macron’s renovation blueprint, dubbed the “Louvre New Renaissance,” promises a remedy. The Mona Lisa will finally get her own dedicated room, accessible through a timed-entry ticket.

Staff are exasperated by overcrowding in a crumbling museum. Luckily for visitors, other Leonardo masterpieces are available ...

The Louvre, the world's most visited museum, abruptly shut down due to a strike over overcrowding and poor working conditions. Here's why the closure matters for tourists and the future of global ...

Emmanuel Macron has called for French electronic music to be given UNESCO heritage status, bringing it in line with other ...

Tourists wait outside the Louvre museum which failed to open on time Monday, June 16, 2025 in Paris AP. But Louvre workers call Macron hypocritical and say the 700 million to 800 million-euro ...