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Mona Lisa is displayed in the empty Salle des Etats of the Louvre Museum in Paris. Photo by MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images.
As France weathers its second lockdown, cultural institutions across Paris have shut down and the streets are quiet. But behind closed doors, the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, is a hive of activity.
While visitors can’t enter the storied museum which welcomed more than nine million people in 2019 restoration specialists, curators, and other experts are hard at work, seizing the calm provided by the shutdown to execute refurbishments ranging from the dusting of 4,500 paintings to the meticulous cleanup of stone-etched hieroglyphs.