French President Emanuel Macron Tuesday announced plans for a major renovation of the Louvre in Paris, the world's ...

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 project, called the Louvre New Renaissance, will create an additional entrance to accompany the museum's famous glass pyramid, which was completed in 1989, along with a new home for Leonardo ...

with the dogma established in the 80s of a single entrance via the pyramid,” des Cars told radio station France Info in 2023. She suggested creating another entrance to the Louvre at the ...

Visitors are seen walking past the Louvre Pyramid designed by I M Pei at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. The Louvre Museum was named the "world's most visited art museum" in ...

The Louvre’s latest overhaul dates back to the 1980s, when the iconic glass pyramid was unveiled. Now, the museum is not up to international standards anymore. Macron said the expansion of the ...

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 the museum’s ...

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 ...

The Louvre’s last overhaul took place in the 1980s, when the iconic, and controversial at the time, glass pyramid at its entrance was unveiled. Macron said the expansion will allow the Mona Lisa ...

who celebrated his first presidential victory in front of the Louvre Pyramid. Macron did not put a price tag on what he called the “new Louvre Renaissance.” He said it would be paid for by the ...

A leaked memo from the Musée du Louvre’s director drew attention to ... €50m renovation of the entrance hall under the glass pyramid. Yet the director’s wish list is much more ambitious ...