{"id":326928,"date":"2025-12-02T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326928\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:24:09","slug":"americans-will-soon-pay-more-to-see-worlds-most-visited-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326928\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans will soon pay more to see world\u2019s most-visited museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Americans should expect to pay more if they want to see the most-visited museum in the world. <\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press<\/a>, the Louvre in Paris has approved a ticket hike from 22 to 32 euros ($25 to $37) for non-European visitors to help finance an overhaul of the sprawling historic building. <\/p>\n

The price increase, which begins Jan. 14, comes after officials say outdated security measures were exposed by the theft of crown jewels<\/a> worth $102 million on Oct. 19.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the Louvre welcomed 8.7 million visitors, 77% of them foreigners including 13 percent from the U.S. China (6%) and Britain (5%) will also be affected by the price hikes.<\/p>\n

Citizens from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, countries that signed up to the European Economic Area agreement, will be exempted from the hike, according to the Associated Press. <\/p>\n

\u201cAustralians, people from New Zealand, Americans, when they come to see Chambord, sometimes that\u2019s once in a lifetime,\u201d Director Pierre Dubreuil told the Associated Press. \u201cPaying 20 or 30 euros doesn\u2019t change anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Extra fees for international visitors are not unusual in many countries across the world. <\/p>\n

The move comes shortly after the U.S. Department of the Interior announced an \u201cAmerica-first\u201d price plan <\/a>that charges foreign tourists more than Americans to enter 11 of the most visited national parks, including the Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, Everglades and Yosemite. <\/p>\n

The price hike is part of the so-called \u201cLouvre New Renaissance\u201d plan that is estimated to cost up to $933 million to modernize infrastructure, lessen crowding and give the famed Mona Lisa a dedicated gallery by 2031.<\/p>\n

Formed originally as a 12th-century fortress on the Seine in central Paris, the Louvre later becoming a royal palace and finally a public museum in 1793. <\/p>\n

It houses an extraordinarily rich collection of about 35,000 artworks spanning over 9,000 years of history, across nearly every major civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Americans should expect to pay more if they want to see the most-visited museum in the world. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-326928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}