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

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

President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to alleviate crowds at the Paris museum and to charge higher fees for visitors from ...

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

Brits could soon pay more to enter the Louvre to see Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting, as French president Emmanuel ...

With upgrades including a separate room for the Mona Lisa, the renovation of Paris' Louvre Museum is expected to cost between ...

Macron's announcement comes after the Louvre's ... to help the museum by providing €10 million in funding this year for the preliminary construction studies led by architects.

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.

There is currently only one entrance to the Louvre ... Even the museum's most modern addition — a glass pyramid that was designed by Chinese-American architect IM Pei and inaugurated in ...

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 ...