{"id":595379,"date":"2023-01-07T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/07\/frances-louvre-museum-to-limit-daily-visitors-to-create-more-enjoyable-experience\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T01:04:00","slug":"frances-louvre-museum-to-limit-daily-visitors-to-create-more-enjoyable-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/07\/frances-louvre-museum-to-limit-daily-visitors-to-create-more-enjoyable-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Louvre Museum to limit daily visitors to create more enjoyable experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors wearing protective face masks line up to see Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s painting La Gioconda (Mona Lisa), at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, in July 2020. The museum reopened to the public after a nearly four-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. File Photo by Christophe Petit Tesson\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span>Jan. 7 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> The Louvre Museum in France has announced that it will limit the number of daily visitors to the famed institution in order to create a more enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n<p>Laurence des Cars, the president-director of the Louvre,<a href=\"https:\/\/presse.louvre.fr\/7-8-million-visitors-to-the-musee-du-louvre-in-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> said in a statement<\/a> that museum staff decided to cap daily admissions at 30,000 because of a surge of visitors.\n<\/p>\n<p>The museum struggled for years to address over-attendance and long lines near masterpieces such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Mona_Lisa\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mona Lisa\" rel=\"noopener\">Mona Lisa<\/a> before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/COVID-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"COVID-19\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19<\/a> pandemic affected visiting the museum. Now, the numbers are starting to return to their pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>Around 7.8 million people visited the Louvre in 2022, an increase of more than 170% compared to 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That number is down 19% from 2019, before the pandemic began, as the first part of the year was still impacted by travel limitations.\n<\/p>\n<p>Still, museum officials said that the change is needed &#8220;in order to facilitate a comfortable visit and ensure optimal working conditions for museum staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The extremely positive figures for 2022 are tremendously encouraging for all our staff. I hope that visitors enjoy spending time at the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, particularly those discovering the museum for the first time, who represent 60% of them,&#8221; des Cars said.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working ever harder to improve visiting conditions and to continue to offer a program of great quality and a unique array of live performances resonating with what&#8217;s on at the museum.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Data provided by the Louvre shows that around 70% of all visits to the museum were made by foreign travelers in 2022, with visitors from the United States topping the list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2023\/01\/07\/france-louvre-museum-limit-daily-visitors-more-enjoyable-experience\/7961673139660\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Tama Kazmierczak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors wearing protective face masks line up to see Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s painting La Gioconda (Mona Lisa), at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, in July 2020. The museum reopened to the public after a nearly four-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. 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