The Louvre Pyramid will continue to be a visitor access point, however. The new entrance will open onto the museum's eastern courtyard, the Cour Carrée, and the plan is to expand downwards ...

Visitors wearing protective face masks line up to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting La Gioconda (Mona Lisa), at the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2020. File Photo by Christophe Petite Tesson/EPA-EFE ...

announced that the Louvre would be given a "new grand entrance" as he unveiled a plan to renovate the world's most visited museum, which has voiced alarm about dire conditions for visitors and its ...

The seat of French kings until Louis XIV abandoned it for Versailles in the late 1600s, the Louvre is regularly listed as the world's most visited museum, and houses masterpieces including the ...

The Louvre Pyramid will continue to be a visitor access point, however. The new entrance will open onto the museum's eastern courtyard, the Cour Carrée, and the plan is to expand downwards ...