The world's most visited museum, the Louvre, closes its doors as staff strike due to overtourism concerns, highlighting the Mona Lisa display, which attracts 20,000 visitors daily.

The Musée du Louvre expansion will build a new entrance and dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, to be selected in an ...

After weeks of tension and a sudden staff strike that left thousands of tourists waiting outside its gates, Paris’s Louvre ...

Staff are exasperated by overcrowding in a crumbling museum. Luckily for visitors, other Leonardo masterpieces are available ...

The Parisian powerhouse opened the competition on June 27 with aims to expand its storied space and ease its visitor congestion through a newly designed entrance and exhibition space for one of its ...

A strike on June 16 that left visitors waiting outside the Mona Lisa’s home shows change is needed more urgently than Macron has promised.

The Louvre Museum closed after staff walked out over overcrowding, decaying infrastructure and deep funding cuts, leaving visitors locked out in protest ...

PARIS (AP) — The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic — but on Monday, it was brought to a halt by its own ...

The Paris museum has become a symbol of tourism pushed to its limits. Workers point to unmanageable crowds, chronic understaffing and what one union called “untenable” working conditions.

In the wake of that growing movement, workers at the Louvre reportedly spontaneously decided to walk out during a standard ...

A major international competition has been launched for the transformation of the Musée du Louvre in Paris [Deadline: 1 ...