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The Louvre Stops Renting Out Nintendo 3DS Consoles, Which Helped Visitors Navigate the Massive Museum for 13 Years

Available since 2012, the handheld gadgets are being retired in favor of a new system—but so far, the Paris museum hasn't ...
AOL

Famous Museums and Attractions Like the Louvre Are Offering Free Virtual Tours

The effects of social distancing have left many feeling, well, a little stir-crazy. Though we all try to stay busy by keeping active and working from home during the COVID-19 outbreak, it's easy to ...

Fans throw a funeral outside of the Louvre after the museum retires the Nintendo 3DS as its official guide

After over a decade, French art museum the Louvre has retired its Nintendo 3DS audio guides. Museum-goers grieve the end of ...
PBS

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, shuts down to sound the alarm on mass tourism

PARIS (AP) — The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic — but on Monday, it was brought to a halt by its own ...
CNN

Louvre museum shuts its doors as staff say they are overwhelmed

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the ...

Inside the Louvre Museum's Breathtaking Debut Fashion Exhibition

Olivier Gabet, Director of the Department of Decorative Arts at the Louvre Museum, knows what you’re thinking. When it was ...