The queue snakes along the Louvre’s corridors, up the steps and escalators and outside to the famous glass pyramid. Most of those waiting have one ultimate aim: to see the Mona Lisa. The usual complaints from visitors about Leonardo da Vinci’s celebrated oil-on-wood painting cover everything from the lengthy queues to its size – at just 77cm by 53cm, it is smaller than many expect. But the Mona Lisa’s transfer from its usual gallery in the Salle des États, currently undergoing renovations, to the magnificent Galerie Médicis, lined with Rubens paintings, has created a whole new palette of gripes. To control the estimated 30,000 visitors a day making a beeline to the masterpiece, the Louvre is advising that only those who pre-book visits will be guaranteed a glimpse. Now visitors say museum staff are giving them barely a minute to take a selfie in front of the painting before ushering them along. They complain of “total disorganisation” and “Louvre chaos”. “Everything was perfect except the visit to the Mona Lisa,” complained Xavier on TripAdvisor. “Several floors of queues but arriving in the gallery we were frankly shocked. The staff treated visitors like cattle … Result: stress to see the painting… Read full this story
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