{"id":598331,"date":"2026-07-22T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/598331\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:43:11","slug":"louvre-gallery-where-jewellery-heist-took-place-to-reopen-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/598331\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre gallery where jewellery heist took place to reopen to public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Apollo Gallery of Paris&#8217;s Louvre Museum, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/arts24\/20260122-the-looted-list-louvre-jewels-added-to-international-database\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">French crown jewels worth 88 million euros<\/a> were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20251125-four-more-arrested-in-102m-louvre-jewel-heist-paris-prosecutor-says\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stolen in 2025 in a brazen heist<\/a>, will reopen to the public on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>But no jewels will be on display and it will revert to its 17th century function as a state gallery, an informed source told AFP Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The gallery will open on Wednesday,&#8221; the source said, confirming a report in Le Parisien newspaper and added Culture Minister Catherine Pegard would be present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20251019-paris-louvre-heist-lays-bare-museum-security-complaints\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Louvre heist raises decades-old questions about museum security<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Le Parisien, the museum&#8217;s president Christophe Leribault said the &#8220;collections and precious objects&#8221; that had been displayed earlier, had been removed.<\/p>\n<p>On October 19, 2025, robbers disguised as construction workers entered the gallery using a truck-mounted lift in the morning and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/france\/20251019-louvre-robbery-shuts-down-world-renowned-museum-for-a-day-french-culture-minister-says\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stole eight crown jewels<\/a>, which remain missing.<\/p>\n<p>For the jewellery that was not stolen, &#8220;we are going to create a secure room, a vault with no windows, in another part of the museum,&#8221; Leribault said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a major construction project and we have to find the ideal location. And the funding,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/france\/20260617-france-s-louvre-museum-running-out-of-steam-new-director-says\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">France&#8217;s Louvre museum &#8216;running out of steam&#8217;, new director says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Louvre burglary stunned the world and revealed major security lapses at the world&#8217;s most visited museum, visited by around nine million people annually.<\/p>\n<p>The theft also triggered an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20251207-louvre-says-hundreds-of-works-damaged-by-water-leak\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">internal crisis at the Louvre<\/a>, leading to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/culture\/20260225-new-louvre-director-christophe-leribault-appointed-to-lead-the-museum-out-of-decades-of-crisis\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> replacement of its president Laurence des Cars by Leribault<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/france-in-focus\/20260310-the-louvre-heist-security-flaws-and-deeper-cracks-at-france-s-top-museum\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Security issues at the Louvre<\/a> had been pushed to the background in recent years, a parliamentary commission on the security of museums in France said in mid-May.<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE 24 with AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Apollo Gallery of Paris&#8217;s Louvre Museum, where French crown jewels worth 88 million euros were stolen in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,1067,366,18,117,2220,79952,19,17,35494,4504,11935,59741],"class_list":["post-598331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-culture","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-france","tag-heist","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-louvre","tag-museums","tag-paris","tag-paris-museums"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116962984135090099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}