“You must create new stars” other than the Mona Lisa or the Venus of Milo, pleads the president of the association sites and monuments

While the president-director of the Louvre alerts the dilapidation of the museum, Julien Lacaze President of the Association sites and monuments evokes “a museum of excess where everything is concentrated, works and visitors” and defends the idea of A “better distribution of visitors”.

“It is not a question of gauge“Estem, on Franceinfo, Friday January 24, Julien Lacaze, president of the association sites and monuments, after the alert of the president-director of the Louvre museum in Paris, on the state of the largest museum in the world. Laurence des Cars evokes the obsolescence, damage and overfrending of certain museum rooms.

A situation that does not surprise Julien Lacaze, because it is “A museum of excess where everything is concentrated, works and visitors“. “All this creates premature wear and tear and discomfort of visit“He adds. He pleads for a “Better distribution of visitors“. For that, “You have to create new stars” et “want“To visitors to”See other works“continues the heritage defense association.

To regulate this attendance, Julien Lacaze offers to highlight “a work of decryption of works that is not done“. A solution which, according to him, would give”Want to get lost in this museum and not always focus around the sames “Works like”The Mona Lisa, the Venus of Milo, the victory of Samothrace“.

Concerning Rachida Dati’s proposal, Minister of Culture, to practice a more expensive entry rate at the Louvre, for foreign visitors (68% of visitors) The president of the association considers that “This can be a solution“, more persists:”You have to make visitors want to go and see them in our churches, in our countryside, and therefore awaken attention both on the other works of the Louvre museum, and then on works of art“Who are not there.