Discussion is underway with the Ministry of Culture to improve the conditions for displaying the famous Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre Museum, and perhaps display it in a separate room, its head, Laurence de Carre, announced on Saturday.
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Mona Lisa soon in a new room? The Louvre Museum has begun a discussion with the Ministry of Culture to improve the conditions for displaying Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa painting. Among the ideas that should be mentioned: presenting it in a separate room.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a yes and I think it’s a yes for a lot of people and we’re thinking about it,” she responded to a question about whether the Mona Lisa, also known as the Monalda. Lisa, you don’t deserve a “separate room.”
She added: “It is always frustrating when we are not quite at the level of reception, and this is the case with the Mona Lisa, so we are thinking in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture in this improvement that seems to me necessary today.”
More than 20,000 visitors daily
These are “80% of the Louvre’s visitors (nearly 9 million in total in 2023, editor’s note), and therefore more than 20,000 visitors (who) view the Mona Lisa every day” and take pictures of themselves in front of it with their mobile phones, Ms. Diess said. Preacher.
The Mona Lisa, a world-famous painting, is on display in the Estates Hall, the largest in the museum, opposite the largest painting in the Louvre, Veronese’s The Marriage at Cana, and next to paintings by the great Venetian masters of the 16th century. a century.
She noted that a scale of up to 30,000 visitors per day has been introduced and will be maintained during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in the most visited museum in the world.
With Agence France-Presse
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