Paris (AFP)
Kubrick or Tavernier screened in the Cour Carrée, a treasure hunt through the Tuileries: deprived of its foreign visitors, the Louvre is diversifying its offerings this summer to attract a local young and family audience.
Last year, closed for six months due to Covid, the largest museum in the world welcomed only 2.7 million visitors, attendance down some 70% compared to 2019.
This crisis had forced him to rethink himself by going to seek audiences who were not used to visiting him.
The Louvre hosts film screenings in its Cour Carrée, from Thursday to Sunday.
After the success of a first edition in 2019, "Cinéma Paradiso Louvre" offers 1,500 places (free) by reservation, "in the strictest respect of sanitary conditions", indicated a press release from the Louvre.
From "2001, A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick to "Let the Party Begin" in homage to the recently deceased director Bertrand Tavernier, every evening will see a film screening.
And, in preview, "How I became a superhero" by Douglas Attal.
The museum is also renewing the twenty-minute guided tours in eight key places of the establishment, offered with the entrance ticket and without reservation, in July and August.
A successful operation in the summer of 2020, with more than 46,000 participants.
Likewise, for the second year, Le Louvre is joining the “learning holidays” plan for the Île-de-France region.
Thirty buses are made available to bring to the museum, in particular young people from extracurricular groups and residents of priority neighborhoods in the suburbs.
The gardeners of the Tuileries have invented a treasure hunt, "the Secret of Arcadia", which aims to help visitors of all ages discover how nature coexists with the city.
And, on July 18, the great loop of the Tour de France will cross the Cour Carrée and run alongside the Pyramid before reaching the Champs-Elysées for its final sprint.
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