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.

By Aurelien Breeden Reporting from Paris The Louvre Museum in Paris will move the Mona Lisa to a newly created exhibition space, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced on Tuesday as he ...

The world's most visited museum is also overcrowded, antiquated and desperate for renovations that will start next year and ...

Paris — It is the most visited museum in the world, but management, staff and visitors agree the iconic Louvre in Paris — the home of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — is in need of some ...

“Every Day I Pray for a Global Selfie-Stick Ban” (original ... throughout the museum, increased water damage from leaks, and the overall experience of viewing the Mona Lisa in the Salle ...

A visitor takes a photo of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", at the Louvre museum. 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 ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the Mona Lisa will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum, which he said will be renovated and expanded in a ...

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by... If the other paintings in the room that houses the ...

So, why not lend the Mona Lisa? After all, temporary exhibitions abroad have already involved some of the Louvre's masterpieces. But to send it permanently to the land of la dolce vita?

“Every day, this very room is the scene of intense agitation,” Louvre Director Laurence des Cars said Tuesday in the Salle des États, where the Mona Lisa now hangs. The museum’s ...