Even if Louvre tickets are sold out, same-day guided tours offer guaranteed entry, skip-the-line access, and ah trusted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local and foreign tourists stand in line to view and take pictures of the Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France on November 6, 2019.

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) ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...