He Louvre Museumwhich is the most frequented in the world, and the French Ministry of Culture are studying how to improve the exhibition conditions of ‘The Mona Lisa’, massively visited every day, including the possibility of placing it in a separate room.
“It is an icon (…) I truly believe that we need to reflect on the exhibition conditions and the reception of visitors. We are an extremely visited museum,” said Laurence des Cars, director of the Parisian art gallery, this Saturday in a interview on the public radio channel France Inter.
Des Cars noted that it is “frustrating” when the museum’s conditions are not “up to the task” of its mission, which is to “transmit” and “tell the story” of thousands of “wonderful works,” through the different generations.
“It is obviously a bit like the case of ‘La Gioconda’, so we reflected together with the Ministry of Culture on this improvement, which seems necessary to me today,” he admitted.
The also called ‘Mona Lisa‘ or ‘Monna Lisa’, a work from 1503 by the Italian Leonardo da Vinci, is one of the most famous paintings in the world and one of the great stars of the Louvre.
It is currently located in the central part of a room that houses more works and where every day hundreds of tourists queue to pass by its enigmatic smile.
Last year the Louvre had 9 million visitors (almost the same levels as before the covid-19 pandemic) and it is estimated that between 75 and 80% of those who enter it put visiting the ‘The Mona Lisa’.
