Tourists wait to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. An art critic has suggested the painting is a security hazard and “not even a satisfying bucket-list item”, and proposed it be moved, drawing a big response. Photo: AP Tourists wait to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. An art critic has suggested the painting is a security hazard and “not even a satisfying bucket-list item”, and proposed it be moved, drawing a big response. Photo: AP
Tourists wait to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. An art critic has suggested the painting is a security hazard and “not even a satisfying bucket-list item”, and proposed it be moved, drawing a big response. Photo: AP

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Seven solutions to the Mona Lisa ‘problem’ – if it really makes a Louvre visit miserable, here’s what museum could do, social media users say

  • Art critic’s suggestion that Mona Lisa should be moved because of the crowds it draws at Paris museum drew a range of suggestions for what to do with painting
  • Move it to another French city, ban smartphones at Louvre, and put up fakes to create a Mona scavenger hunt were among some of the less silly ideas aired

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The Washington Post
The Washington Post

Updated: 5:38pm, 13 Nov, 2019

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Tourists wait to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. An art critic has suggested the painting is a security hazard and “not even a satisfying bucket-list item”, and proposed it be moved, drawing a big response. Photo: AP Tourists wait to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. An art critic has suggested the painting is a security hazard and “not even a satisfying bucket-list item”, and proposed it be moved, drawing a big response. Photo: AP
Tourists wait to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. An art critic has suggested the painting is a security hazard and “not even a satisfying bucket-list item”, and proposed it be moved, drawing a big response. Photo: AP
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