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Louvre Staff’s Work Stoppage Shutters Museum for Hours
Visitors were left stranded outside in Paris on Monday after a monthly union meeting led to a wildcat strike over workplace ...
The world's most visited museum forced to close due to 'too many tourists'
The walk out followed a monthly union staff meeting, involving gallery attendants, security guards, and ticket agents.
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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Louvre’s Surprise Closure Sparks Tourist Outrage
Thousands of angry tourists waited for hours outside the Louvre on Monday morning after the Paris museum's staff staged a ...
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Louvre shuts its doors, overwhelmed and understaffed – a warning sign for global overtourism | CNN - CNN International
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 world’s most-visited museum shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism
The Louvre Museum has failed to open on time Monday, leaving thousands of visitors stuck in long, unmoving lines.
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The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, shuts down to sound the alarm on mass tourism - PBS
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 ...