Louvre says ‘non’ to minister’s Mona Lisa grand tour

Françoise Nyssen, France's culture minister, made headlines when she suggested that the Louvre might send its best-known painting, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, on a “grand tour”. The museum, however, has politely rebuffed the proposal. The painting is going nowhere, it says; not even downstairs … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours