The Louvre announced on Thursday (January 3) that in 2018 it saw 10.2 million visitors: not only a record number for the French museum, but for any museum worldwide, ever. The figure is up 25% from 2017 and easily smashes the Louvre’s previous record of 9.7 million, in 2012.
In a press release, the Louvre partly credits the boost in visitors to “the recovery of tourism in…
The Louvre broke attendance records with Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s help
By Thom Waite (info@dazedgroup.com)
January 5, 2019 at 04:58AM
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