France, $ 800 million for Louvre plans for the excessive house of Mona Lisa

Hedgeous – This is the most visited museum in the world, but management, staff and guests agree with Iconic Louv in Paris – home Leonardo Da Vinci’s Maa Lisa – Some serious TLC needs.

“We have problems in the building,” said Laurence Des cars of the Louvre Museum Laurence Des’s CBS. When the issues are partially old, because the museum was built in the early 13th century.

“This is the history of the history, in the center of Paris and in the center of the French history,” he said.

But this is the issue of storage. The last major population of the museum was more than three decades, when the architect architect’s imon is now added to serve as the main entrance of the generation of the earth.

If this entry was opened in 1989, the architects planned about 4 million visitors a year. Last year, Louvre drew 9 million people and the annual trace of officials will see that it rises to 12 million in the coming years.

To allow this increase, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a 10-year plan to update and expand the museum last month. The plans help a new entry on the east side of the building and manage the flow of visitors.

It will be the main entrance, because the pyramid is simply very small to cope with the current number of expected growth. The entry point is small, the ground is limited to the ground and it is very hot under all bottles in the summer. The luvr pyramid will continue to be a visit to visitors.

The new entrance is to open the museum’s east courtyard, in Cour CARREE and lowering and expanding new galleries below the plan. One of these galleries is designed as a new home for the most famous piece of Louvre, Mona Lisa.

The vast majority of people outside the museum will respond to the vast majority of “Mona Lisa”.

Carlos from San Diego did not hesitate: “I always wanted to see it, because I wanted to see it since me,” CBS said. “I’m a big fan and this is one of what I expected.”

“You can never be enough,” he said.

But once in the room where Mona Lisa is currently living, his global charm means a crowd to take an idea of ​​his mysterious face. The relatively small size of the painting often comes as a shock to visitors, some remains using the magnifying function in smartphone cameras to look closer.

Da Vinci’s masterpiece, Salle des États-tasting in the largest room in Louv. Also, often ignored Venice Masters is the home of the main works by Titan, Tintoretto and Veronese. Filling a prominent piece, Canada, Veronese fills the wedding party, the back wall facing Mona Lisa. However, the guests often march without seeing it.

“He is a kind of universal masterpiece,” says they said. “People want to spend time with him, and this is good. And we need to arrange it. But Louvre is full of 1000 mona lisks.”

He says that one of the maintenance goals is to improve the flow of visitors to find the collections they want most easily and also discover the miracles of the Louvre.

Des CARS believes that the new main entrance museum will close the city in a more concrete way. “The pyramid is a beautiful, beautiful piece of architecture,” he says. “However, this is a little isolated in Paris, not direct contact with the city. Eastern entrance will allow us to connect to the city directly, and therefore think this emergency is a perfect balance.”

Ambitious updates will take only 10 years: for the expansion for six years, and the other four to increase the building to vital repair and obsolete technical devices. The security system will also be updated to accommodate the growing numbers from the doors of the museum.

The project is expected to cost about $ 800 million. Macron promised that the French taxpayers should not stand the bill – state funds will pay $ 10 million in preliminary surveys and plans.

Ticket prices will change to help you pay for all the work – and the guests outside the European Union will have to pay more than next year. French and European taxes help to finance state cultural organizations, so the controversy is that unlike the farther away guests, they must already pay on the entrance ticket.

“It is impossible to discourage international tourism or punish everyone, but this is the reality of the economy,” he said.

Louvre hopes that the museum will open their surrounding bags around the world, hoping that it will open the bags of bags from the world to one point, and launched a fundraising driver.