On Tuesday, he returned to the Louvre to attempt some damage control after a leaked memo raised alarms about the dire state of the world’s most-visited museum. Macron announced that the Mona Lisa will “be installed in a special space,

French President Emmanuel Macron compared the facelift to the rebuilding of the Notre Dame cathedral, which is still ongoing six years later.

The leaked memo said the Louvre suffered from “proliferation of damage in museum spaces, some of which are in very poor condition.”