Paris' Louvre museum to increase ticket price for visitors from outside the European Union

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Source: AP News

Paris’ Louvre museum has approved a ticket hike from 22 to 32 euros ($25 to 37) for non-European visitors from January to help finance an overhaul of the building whose degradation has been exposed by the Oct. 19 crown jewels heist.

The measure was announced by French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this year as part of a decade-long plan of renovation and expansion of the museum. Security breaches that allowed the 88 million-euro ($102 million) theft highlighted the urgency of the situation.

From Jan. 14, nationals from outside the European Union will have to pay 10 euros more. The measure was approved Thursday by the Louvre governing board. Nationals from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, countries that signed up to the European Economic Area agreement, will be exempted from the hike.

The cost for the so-called “Louvre New Renaissance” plan is estimated at up to 800 million euros ($933 million) to modernize infrastructure, ease crowding and give the famed Mona Lisa a dedicated gallery by 2031.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Maybe they'll be able to afford some burger alarms.

[murielm99]

3. Burgers! Yum yum.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Ha ha. Burgler.

[travelingthrulife]

2. Sounds fair.

[Raftergirl]

5. I prefer the smaller museums in Paris. The Louvre is massive and you have to walk miles to see the Mona Lisa.

and the Venus de Milo. Floors and floors of antiquities. We went once and never again.

My favorite museum in Paris is Musée de l'Orangerie.

[JI7]

7. But wasn't all the things before the mona lisa worth seeing ?

[Raftergirl]

8. Yes, but it's massive, so you really just pick the things that interest you most, unless you want to spend weeks

in there.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. So, France will build a wall, and Americans will pay for it.

Sounds familiar.

[electric_blue68]

9. So almost 10 yrs ago my aunt & uncle invited me to their house in Switzerland for 3 weeks to...

make art 🎨 🩷 with my aunt - who carved wonderful woodcuts, and made prints in B&W, and multi colors, amongst her most vivid works. She also did etchings, drawings, pastels, and small run children's books.
It was this sweet village, which I never did walk around in. We did walk out the first day into the edge of the woods north of there. They were in western Switzerland by the Jura Mountains near the French border.
They moved from The States bc of his work for The WHO to Geneva for decades, then retired to this village.

They had this wonderful house filled with art, and crafted objects, with the coolest attic converted into extra bedrooms, and living room! Had a balcony, too!

But because I'd expressed an idea of myself taking a day trip by train to Paris, instead she took me, and a granddaughter to Paris for 4 days/3 nights! Paris is a city I'd wanted to visit.

Well, we went to The Lourve the evening after we arrived around noon by train, and settled into our hotel.
I think we went twice bc I remember sitting outside w her in the afternoon not too far from the entrance.

Well, we walked, and walked. Since she had Parkinsons; for a long trek like this she used a wheelchair which my cousin pushed. I volunteered, and my cuz finally let me help.

Bc she was in the wheelchair they let us go up close to the Mona Lisa in front of the roped off visitors. I'd seen it decades earlier when it was loaned to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I was more excited to see these wonderful landscape paintings by artists I'd never heard of, but didn't write down their names. Der!

And then we came into the big hall where as we entered in the center of the back wall near us was...
The Winged Victory!.
Oh, my goodness: she was *glorious* !!

We also went to the Musée de Orsay. Saw the cathedral, and haystack Monet paintings, ?Degas, ?Bonards, and was Van Gogh's Starry Night there?

Finally, we went to The L'Orangerie, which I had no idea existed! Swoon!

We stayed so long, and were very lucky there was only a modest amount of people. It was easy to see the paintings. First I walked by all of them, then later sat for a long time.

We went into the little room after the first big room, when I found out there was a second room with more waterlilly paintings! Then came back to the first room.
The oval rooms were an amazing way to display these visual treasures!

What an adventure!

[Raftergirl]

10. I have sat for long periods of time, too. It's never been crowded when I have been there.

Before d’orsay opened the impressionist collections were at the Jeu de Paume, which is just across from l'Orangerie. Was another of my favorites.

[electric_blue68]

11. Lucky us for no overcrowding.

Sounds like you've been to Paris more than once.

[Raftergirl]

12. Many times. Since I've been a lot, I just like to stroll around, sit in cafes and eat/drink and people watch and

shop. Next trip is spring 2027 to go to Roland Garros with our kid and his gf. We will likely do some touristy things, too, since kid has only been there for work and he barely saw anything outside the office while he was there.

[electric_blue68]

13. What a wonderful city to be able to visit many times!

Looks like your kid was very limited in his experience!

The French Open? Or other tennis/sporting event?

I guess I was on the ?balcony of Musée de Orsay where I saw the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur in the distance. Impressive!

I didn't have time and probably would not go up to the highest Eifel Tower point -but maybe the first level up.
It was a joy to just walk around by, underneath it!

Another cool thing was seeing the then French campaign for The Olympics - big ad on the street. Which they were awarded x years later!'

And ?Ponte Alexander Bridge! Those gorgeous golden Pegasuses and women trumpeters! Wow!
And the cherub, and lamps.

Of course I spent time walking along The Seine and the booksellers!

Probably the one place we didn't go to that I really would have liked to see (saw a bit from a distance) was The ? Grand Palace.

[Raftergirl]

15. The French Open. It's called Roland Garros everywhere but the US.

Love to stroll along the Seine. Wandering around Paris is wonderful. So much to see!

My kid had to work late while he was there because headquarters are in Boston.

The company he works for now has an office in Prague where part of his team is located, so now he needs to be in the office (fortunately he does this from home) many morning at 6:00am because of the time difference. Kid can’t win! 😜