QUESTION: What costs $5.9 million?
ANSWER: Moving the Mona Lisa across the room. What?!?
No, this isn't a riddle - it's a set up for a crazy story on how much it costs to move the Mona Lisa INSIDE the Louvre, much less outside.
--- Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa moved to its new position of distinction in the Louvre Museum in Paris on April 5, 2005. For two reasons, it will be a very long time before it moves again. First, it is just too precious to the Louvre, and the art world, to be moved often. Second, the last move of several meters cost 3.2 million British pounds. ---
Read more to see where else Ms. Lisa has traveled....
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