Art critics hailed news of the move, saying that the precious painting has stolen the spotlight for long enough.

The French president announced a few changes coming to the world's largest museum, in a bid to prevent overcrowding.

France's president says a second museum entrance will be built, while non-EU residents will also pay more to visit.

Already, the museum has capped daily attendance at 30,000 people, who mostly enter via the Louvre Pyramid ... to see the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo and often leave rooms full of other masterpi ...

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Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.

If the other paintings in the room that houses the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris could ... to finally receive their due. " People have just been coming to check their 'I paid a visit ...

Whenever a French leader starts to have immortal longings—something that happens fairly frequently—there is a good likelihood that it will redound to the benefit of the Louvre. Louis XVI was ...

Last year, 8.7 million people visited the Louvre, most of them standing in long, noisy lines to catch a brief glimpse of — and likely a selfie with — Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile behind her ...