""Due to a strike, the museum won't be able to open today," read a notice placed outside the entrance."
"This prompted dozens of celebrating union members to shout: "We won! We won!""
""We're angry," Elise Muller, a security guard, told reporters. "We disagree with the way the Louvre has been managed.""
""I'm very disappointed, because the Louvre was the main reason for our visit, because we wanted to see the Mona Lisa," one South Korean tourist told AFP."
The Louvre closed to thousands of visitors when staff launched a strike, leaving visitors turned away at the entrance. The workers' union cited a $102 million jewel heist and long-standing grievances over mismanagement and insufficient staffing at a museum of the Louvre's size. The strike reportedly has broad support among 2,200 security guards, cashiers, and researchers. Recent incidents include a gallery closed because ceiling beams threatened collapse and water damage that ruined hundreds of books and manuscripts in the Egyptian department. Lead architect Francois Chatillon admitted the building "is not in good shape." Tourists expressed disappointment at lost visits.
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