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Paris Museum Housing Mona Lisa Closes

Museum staff leaves 'Mona Lisa' fans high and dry as Louvre shuts down without warning

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.

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The Mona Lisa moan: Paris icon Louvre shuts doors after staff overwhelmed by tourist numbers

The spontaneous strike erupted during a routine internal meeting, as gallery attendants, ticket agents and security personnel refused to take up their posts in protest over unmanageable crowds, chronic understaffing and what one union called “untenable” working conditions.

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Paris Museum Housing 'Mona Lisa' Closes As Staff Protest Tourist Overcrowding

The Louvre, home to the Mona Lisa, closed abruptly Monday as the museum's staff staged an impromptu strike over large crowds of tourists and understaffing.

Why the Louvre closed its doors to tourists abruptly

Thousands of tourists were left stranded outside the Louvre in Paris on Monday, as it was forced to shut down. What went ...

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Tourists can expect to pay more to see the Mona Lisa as Louvre reveals plans for extra fee

Visitors wanting to see Leonardo da Vinci ’s Mona Lisa can expect to pay a supplement in addition to the basic Musée du ...

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‘Mona Lisa’ will get its own room under a 10-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris

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 ...

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Thousands locked out of the Louvre as museum workers strike over 'unmanageable crowds'

The Louvre, the world's most visited museum, was closed for a few hours on June 16 after an impromptu staff strike.

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The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room

PARIS — French President ... He also announced that the Mona Lisa — one of the most famous of the estimated 35,000 works of art in the Louvre's collection — would be relocated to its own ...

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‘Mona Lisa’ will get its own room under a major renovation of the Louvre

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum ... by French newspaper Le Parisien, she warned ...

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