French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Louvre after the museum’s directors begged for help to bring it up to date. Speaking from the museum, CGTN’s Ross Cullen explains the problems.
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00:00the Louvre is the world's biggest museum and it has some big problems the director of the
00:06centuries-old building says that the exhibition halls like this one i'm in right now are aging
00:13that there is inadequate signage that the building leaks it's overcrowded there are not
00:18enough areas for people to take a break there are inadequate sanitary and dining facilities
00:23and she has said that unfortunately a trip to the Louvre is now a physical ordeal the French
00:30president Emmanuel Macron visited the Louvre on the 28th of January responding to her call
00:35for urgent government assistance to help restore the world's most visited museum