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The Louvre Museum reports record attendance

In the past year, as many people as have never visited the Louvre in Paris. To the 500. Anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the Museum of 2019 shows an extensive exhibition.

They were in 2018 in the Louvre? Then you have helped the world-famous Museum in Paris with his attendance record. 10.2 million art lovers flocked to last year in the exhibition house. The are 25 per cent more than in 2017 and breaks the previous record from the year 2012. At the time, 9.7 million were in the Louvre.

Almost three-quarters of the guests came from abroad, with Americans and Chinese at the top. Also, the number of French has increased, with 2.5 million compared to the previous year.

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Reasons for the increase in Visitor numbers, there are apparently several. Because of the retrospective is attracted on the painter Eugène Delacroix, the 2018 around 540,000, art lovers, and thus, according to the Museum, the “most successful exhibition ever held in the Louvre”. Delacroix was one of the most important French painter, and is considered a pioneer of impressionism.

Also the increasing international Paris-tourism plays a role in the recover from terrorist attacks, and thereby a lack of guests in the past years. In addition, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a Museum of art, which cooperates with the one in Paris opened in 2017. Through this event, the attention increased for the Louvre in Paris.

Pop stars as an art Ambassador

And a music video fuelled the popularity of the art house: pop star Beyonce and Rapper Jay Z had turned 2018, the Video to their Song “going apeshit” at the Louvre. Many of the masterpieces of the Museum are to be seen in the Video. In the case of YouTube it’s been clicked on more than 147 million Times.

“I am pleased that the Louvre is so popular,” says Museum Director Jean-Luc Martinez. The aim was not necessarily to attract more visitors, but to improve the conditions for the guests. Such as clearer signage and the introduction of Timeslot Tickets belonged to, in order to shorten the queues at the cash Desk.

 

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What visitors to 2019 expected to be in the Louvre

A highlight of the year will be the Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the famous glass pyramid. It is the entrance area of the Louvre, and was built in 1989. Today, it is next to the Eiffel tower is a Parisian landmark. On the last weekend in March it will be in the courtyard of the Louvre several events with free admission.

With voltage, the exhibition is expected on the occasion of the 500. Anniversary of the death of a brilliant artist Leonardo da Vinci. The Louvre has five of the 14 recognized Da Vinci paintings, including the world-famous “Mona Lisa”.


It was planned to get more paintings from Italian collections, for the exhibition to Paris. However there were quarrels with the Italian government to the loan. From the Louvre, it does not mean that the lender on the fixed would be. In any case, will be presented in addition to paintings, “a selection of drawings”. The Show is supposed to represent, according to the Louvre Museum is the result of more than ten years of work and research around Leonardo’s work: The paintings of the Louvre were re-examined by science, three of them restored. 24. October 2019 up to 24. February 2020 will be able to see the exhibition.

New in 2019, the “Saturday Night Opening”. Every first Saturday of the month of entry from 18 to 21:45 PM is free of charge. It starts at 5. January. So far, the entrance was only in the winter half of the year, on every first Sunday of the month.

cd/ks (dpa, afp, Louvre.fr)


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