The Mona Lisa will be moved to a new space at the Louvre following warnings about overcrowding and crumbling infrastructure at the Parisian museum. Speaking in front of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece ...

trail that eventually takes you to the room, [which] was totally chaotic,” he adds. The other masterpieces in the Louvre’s largest ... Pei’s glass pyramid in 1989. In 2005, it had 7.3 ...

Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to expand the Louvre and move the Mona Lisa to a new exhibition space, after the museum warned of overcrowding.

In 2023, you told the Elysée about the urgent need for renovation at the Louvre and proposed the creation of a new entrance to relieve congestion at the Pyramid. Why is Emmanuel Macron only ...

Macron announced the creation of a new "grand entrance" to the Louvre, located on its eastern façade, to relieve congestion at the iconic glass pyramid where visitors currently enter and exit ...

But it's estimated to reach up to 800 million euros ($834 million). The Louvre's last overhaul dates back to the 1980s, when the iconic glass pyramid was unveiled. Macron said the expansion of the ...

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 ...

Last year, the Louvre welcomed 8.7 million visitors, who all entered via the pyramid-shaped western entrance, designed by architect I.M. Pei, which itself has become problematic as its greenhouse ...

The last major renovation of the museum was more than three decades ago, when renowned architect I.M. Pei's now-iconic glass pyramid ... the Louvre's most famous piece, the Mona Lisa. If you ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the Mona Lisa will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum under a major renovation and expansion of the Paris landmark that ...