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How many visitors is too many? Paris museums confront ‘over-attendance’

Sylvain Amic, the president of the Établissement public des musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie (the governmental body that oversees both institutions) since April 2024, puts it plainly: “A museum’s mission is to radiate—to make known and to share its collections with the greatest number of people—so there is a contradiction in the idea of needing to limit how many can come.”