French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the Mona Lisa will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum, which he said will be renovated and expanded in a major overhaul ...

Museums & Institutions Louvre Launches Design Contest for $400 Million Expansion, Including a New Room for ‘Mona Lisa’ The project will also create a new entrance for the strained museum.

The Louvre is the world's most-visited museum, bringing in 8-10 million people last year, and the Mona Lisa is by far its biggest attraction. The museum receives some 20-30,000 visitors daily.

He also announced that the Mona Lisa — one of the most famous of the estimated 35,000 works of art in the Louvre's collection — would be relocated to its own new, independently accessible and ...

Per a press release, this “once-in-a-lifetime” encounter with the Mona Lisa is one of 24 lots up for auction in Christie’s and Hotel Drouot ’s “ Bid for the Louvre ” sale.