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

The iconic Louvre in Paris is no stranger to crowds. Since first opening in 1793, the museum has played host to millions of ...

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” has requested urgent help from 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 ...

The pyramid, inaugurated in 1989, commissioned by then-President François Mitterrand and designed by architect I.M. Pei ...

The "Mona Lisa" is to get its own new room at the Louvre art museum in Paris, allowing it to be shown off to even better ...

The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, has requested urgent help from the ...

The works will be carried out in parallel with the museum's ongoing activities to avoid closure and are expected to be completed by 2031 at the latest. Macron stressed that the project is "realistic ...

The world-famous needs a massive injection of cash if it is to cope with visitor numbers, the museum's president has said ...

Last spring, the world’s most-visited art museum, the Louvre in Paris, proposed moving its most popular artwork—Leonardo da ...

The Louvre’s last big overhaul was in the 1980s, when architect I.M. Pei’s glass-and-steel pyramid was unveiled. At the time, the museum was working to accommodate 4 million visitors a year.

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci ... via the pyramid-shaped western entrance, designed by architect I.M. Pei, which itself has become problematic ...