Espace of 2,000 m2 for the Mona Lisa, new exhibition hall … The Director of the Louvre reveals her projects

Unless you have cut yourself off from any information, we have known for ten days that the best known painting in the world will move. The Mona Lisa will be moved to another room more accessible for millions of visitors, as announced by President Emmanuel Macron on January 28. But what will his new apartments look like? Laurence des Cars, director of the Louvre, specifies the contours. And she warns that we will never have seen such a large space in the museum. The masterpiece of Leonardo da Vinci is currently presented in the States, the largest in the palace with its 700 m2. But his next accommodation, in a newly created perimeter and dug under the square courtyard, will reach … 2,000 m2, from 2031. Three times larger. And that for a single work!