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The director of the Louvre alerts Rachida Dati, in a note published by “Le Parisien” on January 22, about the state of deterioration of her museum. (Illustrative photo)
CULTURE – Is the largest museum in the world aging poorly? The president of the Louvre, located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, alerts the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati about the deterioration of her museum, in a confidential note published this Wednesday, January 22 by The Parisian.
President Laurence des Cars is concerned in this document “an increase in damage” in several spaces of the museum, many places are “very degraded” and subject to “temperature variations” important which endanger the conservation of the works.
The “public service mission of the museum” questioned
In addition to these evils for the paintings, the patroness of the Louvre also evokes the degraded experience for visitors to the Louvre. Visiting the museum is “a physical test; accessing works takes time and is not always easy. The visitor has no space to take a break”she writes.
She finally questions the merits of maintaining “the presentation of the Mona Lisa in the Salle des Estates”facing the « fascination » of the public who arrive en masse to see the work, without having the “keys to understanding”. For Laurence des Cars, this raises questions about the “public service mission of the museum”.
-The president of the museum, which welcomes up to 10 million visitors, has already imposed a limit of 30,000 visitors per day since 2022, even during the Olympic Games this summer, to facilitate traffic and improve the comfort of the visit.
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