{"id":460,"date":"2025-10-22T16:57:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/?p=460"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:57:42","slug":"louvre-survey-97-of-visitors-indifferent-to-robbery-if-mona-lisa-is-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/2025\/10\/louvre-survey-97-of-visitors-indifferent-to-robbery-if-mona-lisa-is-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre Survey: 97% of Visitors Indifferent to Robbery if Mona Lisa is Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Paris<\/strong> \u2014 A new internal survey by the <strong>Louvre Museum<\/strong> has found that 97% of its visitors would remain calm in the event of a robbery, provided the <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> stays in place. The poll, conducted in early October, questioned over 2,000 museum guests from 38 countries. According to officials, most respondents said they came \u201conly for the painting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report was released by the museum\u2019s Department of Visitor Experience and published on <a>louvre.fr<\/a>. It shows that general awareness of other collections, including the Egyptian and Greek wings, remains below 15%. Even during simulated evacuation drills, most participants refused to leave the Denon Wing until they confirmed the <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> was still visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson for the Louvre, <strong>Claire Dufresne<\/strong>, said the results were \u201cconsistent with long-term visitor behavior.\u201d She added that many tourists now plan their entire Paris itineraries around the five-minute viewing slot before the painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey also recorded that 62% of guests could not name another artwork displayed in the same hall. Meanwhile, security staff reported that visitors frequently walk past centuries-old masterpieces without a glance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris \u2014 A new internal survey by the Louvre Museum has found that 97% of its visitors would remain calm in the event of a robbery, provided the Mona Lisa stays in place. The poll, conducted in early October, questioned over 2,000 museum guests from 38 countries. According to officials, most respondents said they came&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-louvre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}