Painting destined for the bin ends up at Louvre and valued at €24m It is being hailed as a ‘crucial milestone’ in the history of art and will have an exhibition dedicated to it
Louvre sister museum in old French mining city celebrates 10 years The Louvre-Lens celebrated its tenth birthday on December 4, having returned a sense of pride to one of France’s poorest towns
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Louvre night guard photographs French toy cars in surprising locations Making the mini-cars appear full size - Félicien Michaut always has a vehicle in his pocket ready to take a photo and delight his 25,000 facebook fans
Paris: Louvre files a formal complaint after Mona Lisa cake stunt The man who smeared cake on the glass said ‘think about the Earth’ as he was escorted away
Paris Louvre uploads almost entire art collection for free online The museum remains closed due to Covid but almost half a million major works can be seen online after a super-modern web revamp. Complete digital tours available.
French museums offering art, culture and history from home Museums in France have upped their digital offerings this year, with many creating special content for the European Night of Museums last weekend
Paris Louvre reopens: Why now is a good time to visit The Louvre art gallery in Paris is reopening its doors to the public today (Monday July 6) - with a series of new health measures in place - and is expected to be up to 80% less busy than normal.
A night at the museum: Paris Louvre to open non-stop The Louvre museum in Paris has announced that it will stay open overnight for three consecutive nights this month - for free - to close out its “biggest ever” Leonardo da Vinci exhibition.
‘Biggest ever’ da Vinci show opens at Paris Louvre Doors are now open to the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre museum in Paris, with the show dubbed the “biggest ever retrospective” of the Renaissance polymath.
Italian court blocks Louvre loan of Leonardo sketch The Vitruvian Man drawing was due to be lent to the Paris museum for a major exhibition to mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death in France
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Airbnb offers ‘night with Mona Lisa’ at Paris Louvre Property sharing company Airbnb has worked with the Louvre museum in Paris to offer “a night with the Mona Lisa” competition, as part of the 30 year celebrations of the museum’s famous pyramid. Louvre's artwork falls apart hours after installation Louvre pyramid 30 years celebrated with new artwork French culture is everywhere 10.2m visitors set record for Le Louvre Louvre focuses on Chinese as it hits 10m visitor mark
Hundreds of French artworks to travel to small museums Over 400 artworks from some of France’s most prestigious museums are to be exhibited in smaller, less-visited establishments around the country, including pieces by Van Gogh and Goya.
Louvre art museum tickets scam revealed Tourist tickets to the Louvre art museum in Paris are being used up to seven times, costing the museum up to €1m, an investigation has claimed.
Artist arrested for naked pose in front of Mona Lisa An artist has been arrested after taking naked portraits of himself in front of the Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre art gallery in Paris.