A ‘deplorable state of disrepair’: Employees and visitors comment on the Louvre

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The Louvre in Paris, one of the world’s biggest and most famous museums, “is in a deplorable state of disrepair”, says one employee and union rep, while visitors complain of a lack of heating and nowhere to sit down. It comes after a leaked memo by the museum’s head, Laurence des Cars, warned that some areas of the Louvre are “no longer watertight” and that the museum suffers from overcrowding and substandard facilities.

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