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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

Visiting leaky, crowded Louvre is ‘physical ordeal’, museum’s boss says

People queuing around the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris.
The Louvre’s popularity is causing a ‘physical strain’ on the historic building. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters

Visiting the Louvre has become a “physical ordeal” as the throngs of tourists, leaks and substandard catering take a toll on the world’s most-visited museum, its director has said in a leaked memo.

The document, written by Laurence des Cars for the French culture minister, Rachida Dati, but leaked to the media on Thursday, sounded the alarm over the state of the Paris museum.

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