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 at ...

The Louvre attracts around 10 million visitors a year and can accommodate some 30,000 to 50,000 people a day, 80 percent of whom come to see the Mona Lisa.

In this grab taken from video, a view of the scene after activists hurled soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa, at the Louvre Museum, in Paris, Sunday. Jan. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Clement Lanot) ...

This photograph shows the painting "La Joconde" (the Mona Lisa) by Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci at the Louvre museum in Paris, Jan. 28, 2025.© Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images ...

The Musée du Louvre in Paris has opened a new exhibition celebrating the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci, who died in Amboise, France, 500 years ago. As well as displaying paintings, drawings ...

Art World The Mona Lisa Is on the Front Lines as the Louvre Reopens With Some New Safety Measures Against Disease Staff agreed to reopen the world's most visited museum after a two-day closure.

The portrait has endured indignities before, including a famous theft from the Louvre in 1911, though it was recovered two years later. While the pastry attack was dramatic, the Mona Lisa was not ...

Last year, officials at the Louvre told the Art Newspaper that Leonardo completed the “Mona Lisa” later than previously thought. The portrait was finished more than a decade later, possibly as ...

1. Make a Mona scavenger hunt Instead of featuring only the one true Mona Lisa, plant a number of fake copies around the Louvre and let people guess which one is real, according to one Twitter user.