After the recent heist at the Louvre, it appears anyone with a ladder and angle grinder can steal some of the most valuable ...
Museums and the consultants who advise them have been busy reviewing their own precautions in the aftermath of the brazen ...
Visitors to the Louvre will be forced to traipse through a “Mona Lisa journey” covering a vast 32,000 square foot reception area to get a glimpse of the painting, the museum’s director has announced.
Louvre president Laurence des Cars is facing mounting pressure to resign after a French Senate hearing about security lapses ...
On October 19th, 2025, a group of people snuck into the Louvre and stole eight pieces of the French Crown Jewels in broad ...
Following a recent jewelry heist, the famous Paris art institute is increasing admissions for select visitors and will use ...
France's National Library and Ministry of Culture also suffered water damage during a deluge on the night of July 9. Several sections of the world’s most-visited art museum were temporarily closed to ...
Seven cultural institutions in France experienced burglaries with increasingly violent methods between September and October, ...
This onetime piece of kitchen décor will soon hang in France’s most famous museum. The painted panel that an elderly French woman discovered above her hot plate back in 2019 has been obtained by the ...
The Musée du Louvre in Paris was forced to close today as workers went on strike, protesting deteriorating facilities and working conditions.
Like some kind of paranoid Banksy, a woman entered a Louvre gallery today and scrawled 9/11 conspiracy graffiti on Eugene Delacroix's canvas Liberty Leading the People. The defacing happened at the ...