The world’s most-visited museum, it seems, cannot catch a break lately. Unionized staff at Paris’s Louvre Museum voted unanimously on Wednesday to continue a strike that began Monday, when hundreds walked out in protest over “increasingly deteriorated working conditions,” the Associated Press reports. 

The action had closed the museum on Monday, and it was closed Tuesday as per its usual schedule. It opened late and only partially on Wednesday, offering a “masterpiece route” that allows visitors to see works like the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo, per the AP’s report.

About 400 staff members, represented by trade unions CFDT Culture; SNMD-CGT: Syndicat Culture Musées et Domaines; and SUD Culture Solidaires are participating from among the institution’s 2,100 staffers.

The unions were in talks on Monday with officials from the Culture Ministry, who offered to cancel a planned €5.7 million ($6.7 million) budget cut in 2026, recruit m...