The head of the museum said that the Louvre Museum is collapsing and needs a huge injection of state money if it coexists with the growing visitor numbers at all.
Laurence Des Cars issued a flagrant warning in a letter that was leaked to the government that raises the alarm to cut energy, floods and failed infrastructure.
She said that the famous glass pyramid – which included the unique access point to the exhibitions – since 1989 – was “structurally unable to deal”, and that Mona Leonardo Da Vinci, which is seen by 20 thousand people every day, may have moved.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who personally cared about the museum's problems, will visit the Louvre Museum on Wednesday amid speculation that he might announce a new investment plan.
However, his powers have been dramatically reduced since he lost control of Parliament six months ago, and the state of unstable financial affairs in France – with the 2025 budget continuing in the conflict – makes any major financial commitment controversial.
According to the Christian Galiani Syndicate of the Louvre Union, “there is no one day passes without a new sign of the building's decline-peeling rooms, exhibitions and storage floods, energy standards, and late defenses to contractors because there is no money.”
In November 2023, a temporary exhibition had to be transferred in Souli's wing just a few days after the flood.
Large differences in temperature-from 10C in winter cause 30 ° C in summer-uncomfortable for employees and visitors, as well as a threat to maintain art works.
The temperature problem is flagrantly in the pyramid of the architect IEOH Ming PEI, which is designed to deal with four million annual visitors, but today it faces more than twice that. Every day about 30,000 people pass through the rotating door, making the Museum of the Museum the most visited in the world.
In her message, Laurence des Cars has caused the need for better toilets, cafes and comfort areas. “In everyone's point of view, the Mona Lisa's offer … is something to look at,” she said.
About three quarters of the museum's visitors go to see the Leonardo Da Vinci painting, but the experiment has become an experiment, as a continuous crowd is converted via Salle Des Etats and gets 50 seconds on average to monitor the image and take pictures.
“The audience … has no way to understand the artist's work, which raises questions about our full task of public service,” said Ms. Desckers.
Among the options are looking at the opening of a new entrance to the Louvre Museum below Colonnades at the eastern end of the palace. There is currently a large open space here, with an empty trench but was created in the 1960s.
Through underground drilling in the trench, and in the neighboring Court Carré, new spaces can be created to reduce congestion, improve facilities, and may include Mona Lisa Returned Lisa. Another option for the painting is to remove it from the main group and ask visitors to pay additional fees.
The Louvre received a government subsidy of 96 million euros (80 million pounds) in 2024. In 2023, receipts achieved 161 million euros of tickets and events, in addition to 83 million euros from the arrangement of its sponsorship with the Louvre Abu Dabi Museum.
With more unlikely state funds, the museum is increasingly viewing donors and benefactors who raised 840 million euros to save the Notre Dame Cathedral after the fire.
It is also known that the Minister of Culture, Rashida Dati, supports the increasing entry fees for visitors without the European Union.
