“The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum,” by James Gardner (Atlantic Monthly, 394 pages, $30) The Louvre is shuttered now, empty of humankind for the first time in eight ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum under a major renovation and expansion of the Paris landmark that will ...

The Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff Saturday after receiving bomb threats. The government has put France on high security alert after a fatal school stabbing by a ...

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci’s “ Mona Lisa,” has requested urgent help from the French government to restore and renovate its ageing exhibition halls and ...

MUSEUM QUALITY: Fashion may be in the doldrums, but it still can draw one helluva crowd. The Louvre's first fashion exhibition, which wound up its seven-month run on Sunday, welcomed 1.06 million ...

Airbnb and the Louvre are offering travelers a different take on a night at the museum through the chance to win a sleepover at this famous Parisian attraction. On April 30, one winner and a guest ...

The recent ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Louvre in Paris marked the highlight of I. M. Pei’s career in architecture, although in the original unveiling of his design, the overwhelming response was ...

Paris Fashion Week kicked off in style with the Grand Dîner du Louvre, a gala that transformed the historic museum into one of the city’s most exclusive fashion affairs for one night. Hosted in the ...

PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed to the public on Monday when its workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the government’s unpopular pension reform plans.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. This article is more than 5 years old. The Louvre in Paris is the ...

correction An earlier version of this review incorrectly said that the Louvre has 36,000 holdings. The Louvre’s collection comprises nearly 400,000 objects and the museum has 36,000 works on display.