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PARIS (AP) \u2014 Employees at the Louvre Museum<\/a> voted to extend a strike<\/a> that has disrupted operations at the world\u2019s most visited museum, though the venue partially opened Wednesday to allow visitors to enjoy its highlights.<\/p>\n

The museum said visitors had access to a limited \u201cmasterpiece route\u201d which includes Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s \u201cMona Lisa\u201d and the Venus de Milo.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to a strike, some rooms in the Louvre Museum are … closed,\u201d it said on social media. \u201cWe apologize for any inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Union workers are protesting chronic under-staffing, building deterioration and recent management decisions \u2014 pressures intensified by a brazen crown jewels heist<\/a> in October that exposed serious security lapses.<\/p>\n

The strike decision came during a morning general assembly, after workers adopted the walkout unanimously earlier this week. The museum was closed Tuesday for its weekly day off.<\/p>\n

Culture Ministry officials held crisis talks with unions Monday and proposed to cancel a planned $6.7 million cut in 2026 funding, open new recruitment for gallery guards and visitor services and increase staff compensation. Union officials said the measures fell short.<\/p>\n

Louvre President Laurence des Cars was scheduled to appear before the Senate\u2019s culture committee Wednesday as lawmakers probe security failures at the museum.<\/p>\n

Des Cars has acknowledged an \u201cinstitutional failure\u201d following the heist but has come under renewed scrutiny after admitting she only learned of a critical 2019 security audit after the robbery. France\u2019s Court of Auditors and a separate administrative inquiry have since criticized delays in implementing a long-promised security overhaul.<\/p>\n

The Culture Ministry announced emergency anti-intrusion measures last month and assigned Philippe Jost, who oversaw the Notre Dame restoration, to help reorganize the museum. The move was widely seen as a sign of mounting pressure on Louvre leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Employees at the Louvre Museum voted to extend a strike that has disrupted operations at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":453512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,440,156,57,63,606,24963,161594,24407,159024,206574,402,1607,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-453511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-jobs-and-careers","16":"tag-labor","17":"tag-labor-unions","18":"tag-laurence-des-cars","19":"tag-leonardo-da-vinci","20":"tag-louvre-museum","21":"tag-philippe-jost","22":"tag-protests-and-demonstrations","23":"tag-strikes","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115735662665569463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}