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.

The director of the Louvre, Laurence Des Cars, announced the introduction of additional fees for viewing the Mona Lisa. These ...

Paris is a city filled with wallet-friendly culture fixes, and we’re seeing this recent development as the perfect excuse to ...

The show, called "Louvre Couture," welcomed its first visitors a day after a shock memo from the museum's director about water leaks, building problems and overcrowding made headlines internationally.

is entitled 'Louvre New Renaissance'Image: Bertrand Guay/dpa/AFP/picture alliance That is also the question in Berlin, where the Museum Island — a complex of classic and modern buildings ...

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

Rising prices, crowds and failing facilities have turned the world’s greatest art museum into a ‘physical ordeal’. So what’s the solution? When I visited the Louvre last November ...

PARIS — France will launch a six-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris, enlarging the world’s most-visited museum to make room for the huge crowds who now cram inside the palace on the banks of the ...

His visit followed a leaked memo from the Louvre's director, Laurence des Cars, last week, stating that parts of the museum were in "very poor condition". The memo also detailed that sections of ...

The French president noted that the massive undertaking wouldn’t come at a cost to Parisians because it would be financed by the museum’s sponsorship deal with Louvre Abu Dhabi as well as ...

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech to announce a multi-year overhaul, long-term investments to modernize the Louvre museum, next to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa ...