Louvre’s Blockbuster Leonardo Show Attracts Over 1 M. Visitors, Nearly Doubling Previous Record

The world’s most visited museum has broken its own attendance records for attendance to a single exhibition by almost double. The Louvre’s blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci retrospective, timed to the 500th anniversary of the Renaissance master’s death, brought in 1,071,840 visitors over the four months it was on view. This figure easily smashed its previous attendance record of 540,000 visitors, which was held by a 2018 Eugène Delacroix retrospective.
The exhibition, which