AGI – The Louvre and the French government are studying how to improve the exhibition conditions of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and possibly present it in a separate room, the president of the museum announced. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s a yes and I think it’s a yes for a lot of people. We’re thinking about it,” Laurence Des Cars responded on public radio France Inter when asked whether the Mona Lisa deserved “a separate room.”
“It is frustrating not to be up to the standards of reception conditions. This is the case of the Mona Lisa, so we are reflecting together with the Ministry of Culture on this improvement, which I consider necessary”, he added. Every day “80% of the Louvre’s visitors, that is, more than 20,000, see the Mona Lisa” and take photographs of themselves in front of it with their cell phones, Des Cars said. As of 2023, the museum had nearly 9 million visitors. The Mona Lisa, a world-famous painting, is displayed in the Salle des Etats, the museum’s largest room, opposite the Louvre’s largest painting, “The Marriage at Cana” by Veronese, and alongside paintings by great masters Venetians of the 16th century. The world’s busiest museum limits daily visitors to a maximum of 30,000, a figure that will be maintained during the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, Des Cars said.
