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The world's most visited museum, the Louvre, closes its doors as staff strike due to overtourism concerns, highlighting the "Mona Lisa" display, which attracts 20,000 visitors daily.

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the ...

France’s famed Louvre museum and Versailles Palace both closed Saturday after bomb threats as the country remains on its highest level of alert for terrorism after a fatal Friday incident ...

Mona Lisa attacked with cake in apparent climate protest 00:40. The Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff Saturday after receiving bomb threats. The government has put ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum under a major renovation and expansion of the Paris landmark ...

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PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed to the public on Monday when its workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the government’s unpopular pension reform plans.

The Louvre reopened at 2:30 p.m., a museum spokeswoman said. It was unclear which staff members returned to work. The museum closed at 6 p.m. and is scheduled to reopen on Wednesday morning.

France on Friday started an architectural competition for the daunting task of expanding the Louvre in Paris, in a bid to ease overcrowding at the world’s biggest and most visited museum.