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Want to feel like you're in 'Mona Lisa Smile' this fall? Here's where it filmed in New England.
While some filming took place in New York and California, the movie also shot scenes at two colleges in New England.
Thieves reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress in the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum.
Visitors wanting to see Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa can expect to pay a supplement in addition to the basic Musée du Louvre entrance fee as part of the site’s redevelopment, the museum’s director has said. France’s National Commission for ...
The most spectacular Louvre robbery since the Mona Lisa in 1911 proves the vulnerability of French museums, writes.
Thieves used a basket lift to break into the Louvre on Sunday morning, forced a window, smashed display cases and escaped with jewels of “inestimable value,” France’s interior minister said, as the world’s most visited museum closed for the day during the investigation.
PARIS (Reuters) - Visitors to the Louvre in Paris should have a clearer view of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" after the museum installed a new, more transparent form of bullet-proof glass to protect the world's most famous painting. The Mona Lisa has ...