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The agreement between France and Britain for the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry was finalised and signed yesterday at the ...
Architects are being asked to submit proposals for a new entrance for the world’s most visited museum — and to create a new ...
The Musée du Louvre expansion will build a new entrance and dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, to be selected in an ...
A spontaneous strike at the Louvre shut down the world's most-visited museum on Monday after workers refused to take up their ...
Last month, workers at the Louvre in Paris went on strike. Bemoaning overcrowding and inadequate staffing, they refused to open the museum’s doors, leaving massive lines of tourists waiting outside.
The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229-foot)- long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be ...
The Louvre Museum, a global icon, was unexpectedly shut down due to a staff strike, highlighting issues of overtourism and understaffing. Workers prot ...
The museum's director, Laurence des Cars, and the chief architect of France's historic monuments, François Chatillon, speak ...
The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the ...
The Louvre requested government assistance in January, report says A week before Macron announced the renovation project, museum leadership reached out to the government to ask for its help.
What’s more, the disruption comes just months after President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a sweeping decade-long plan to rescue the Louvre from precisely the problems now boiling over — water ...