Mona Lisa to Have New Room with Independent Access, Announces Macron

Paris: The Mona Lisa will have a new room in the Louvre with independent access, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. Perhaps the world’s most famous painting will be exhibited in a new room of the Parisian museum, with independent access from the rest of the Louvre, announced Macron in front of Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece as part of the ‘Renaissance du Louvre’ project.

According to Ansa News Agency, last week the Lombardy region offered to host the Mona Lisa after French newspaper Le Parisien published a letter in which Laurence des Cars, president of the Louvre Museum, requested urgent help from French Culture Minister Rachida Dati to renovate its ageing exhibition halls in order to better protect its masterworks.