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

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.