TIME LIMITS FOR LOOKING AT THE MONA LISA

Visitors to Paris’ famed Louvre Museum are furious that they’re only allowed less than a minute to view the famed Mona Lisa. The painting draws about 30,000 people per day, and almost everybody takes a picture of it. The portrait was recently moved from its usual gallery, which is now under renovation, to a smaller gallery which has caused lines of visitors to crowd the hallways. Now, if you want to see the Mona Lisa you have to pre-book a time, stand in a line, and then you’ll only have a minute before someone tells you to move along. The Mona Lisa will return to its usual gallery in October.
* Do they at least have FastPass, like Walt Disney World?
* Why not just stand at the exit and ask somebody to show you their picture of it on their phone.
* Put a 24/7 Earth Cam in front of it, like they do with eagle’s nests.
* It’s like when my dad took us to the Grand Canyon: “Well, there’s the Grand Canyon. Let’s go, kids, back in the car.”