The Minister of Culture calls for being “innovative” to rethink “the funding” of the Louvre. A statement that follows the letter written by Laurence des Cars, its president-director in Paris, to alert the degraded state of the museum.
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Floods, damage, too many visitors … To face the dilapidation of the Louvre, Rachida Dati believes that “You have to be innovative, including for financing“. “I wanted a differentiated pricing policy which will be implemented from January 1, 2026 and which will notably allow to finance this new museum project“, announces this Thursday the Minister of Culture on France Inter.
-“The Louvre is like Notre-Dame, it is our heritage“Said Rachida Dati.”Visit and working conditions are not up to this largest museum in the world“, she deplores, however.
Temperature problems for the preservation of works, infiltration, glass pyramid “structurally exceeded“Faced with the influx of visitors … The minister received mid-January a letter from Laurence des Cars, the president-director of the museum in Paris, who talks about her”duty to alert“. The director thus sounds the alarm on the state of the largest museum in the world, hoping to obtain financial support at the height.
Laurence des Cars notably quotes a “Multiplication of damage in sometimes very degraded spaces” et “l’obsolescence” of the “technical equipment“The Louvre welcomed nine million visitors in 2024, twice as much as its capacity.
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