French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic says Macron is aiming for another success after restoration of Notre Dame.

The Louvre Pyramid will continue to be a visitor access point, however. The new entrance will open onto the museum's eastern courtyard, the Cour Carrée, and the plan is to expand downwards ...

The entrance to the building—I. M. Pei’s Louvre Pyramid—was designed to accommodate just half of the visitors it currently does. To alleviate that issue, a new entrance will be created at ...

Forty years after its last major renovation—the construction of the glass pyramid—the Louvre now welcomes 8.7 million visitors annually, more than double the 4 million it was designed to ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce possibly hundreds of millions of euros in renovation work for the Louvre.

Already, the museum has capped daily attendance at 30,000 people, who mostly enter via the Louvre Pyramid, a glass-and-steel structure designed by the architect I.M. Pei in the 1980s, during the ...

Under Napoléon III, the Louvre underwent another massive expansion, with the construction of the Richelieu ... heights with the addition of the glass pyramid, designed by Chinese-American ...

The design of the pyramid ... when Louvre employees spirited away thousands of artworks ahead of the Nazi invasion. The museum's renovation project, along with all related construction for the ...

The design of the pyramid ... when Louvre employees spirited away thousands of artworks ahead of the Nazi invasion. The museum's renovation project, along with all related construction for the ...