The Louvre and the French government are studying how to improve the exhibition conditions for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and eventually present it in a separate room, the museum’s president announced on Saturday.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s ‘yes’ and I think it is for a lot of people. We’re thinking about it,” Laurence Des Cars responded on public radio. France Inter to the question of whether Mona Lisa deserved “a separate room.”
“It is frustrating not to be up to par in the reception conditions. This is the case for the Mona Lisa, so we reflected together with the Ministry of Culture on this improvement that seems necessary to me”go.
Every day “80% of the visitors to the Louvre, that is more than 20,000, come to the Mona Lisa” and they take pictures in front of her with their phone, Des Cars said.
In 2023 the museum had about 9 million visitors.
The Mona Lisa, a world-famous painting, is displayed in the Hall of States, the largest in the museum, in front of the largest painting in the Louvre, Can’s weddingby Veronese, and next to paintings by great Venetian masters of the 16th century.
The busiest museum in the world limits daily visitors to a maximum of 30,000, a figure that will be maintained during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, Des Cars indicated.