PARIS, Feb 23 — It’s a half hour after midnight, and a huge crowd is massed in front of the illuminated glass pyramid at the Louvre for a rare night-time visit to the museum’s most ambitious show in years, a landmark collection of works by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. “It’s a...
Since Friday, the Louvre has opened its door for three nights of free visits to the show-stopping exhibition before it wraps up on Monday. — AFP pic
Since Friday, the Louvre has opened its door for three nights of free visits to the show-stopping exhibition before it wraps up on Monday. “Usually after a museum visit, you’re ready to head home, but here we can stay and chat, there’s no hurry, everyone’s relaxed,” she told AFP.
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