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

When I visited the Louvre last November ... restless tourists took photos beside its iconic pyramid. Forty-five minutes later – an hour past our booked entry time – we descended on the ...

The Mona Lisa, the world’s most famous portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, will be relocated to a private room in the Louvre as ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the Mona Lisa will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre ...

The Louvre's last major overhaul was in the 1980s when the iconic glass pyramid was introduced during late President François Mitterrand's tenure. Now, the museum's facilities are seen as lacking ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...