https://www.scmp.com/rss/523980/feed A Paris France based national art museum. Its main areas of activity include exhibiting a collection of sculptures objets d’art paintings drawings and archaeological finds from ancient civilizations to the mid-19th century. Housed in the historic Louvre Palace, It also focuses on education research and conservation. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Associated Press Associated Press The Louvre Museum’s director resigned on Tuesday after months of pressure following the October theft of the French crown jewels, as the world’s most visited museum faced widening scrutiny over security failures, labour unrest and a suspected ticket fraud scheme. Laurence des Cars quit after a punishing year for the former royal palace - the high-profile jewels heist from the Apollo Gallery, a mid-February burst pipe near the Mona Lisa, water leaks damaging priceless books, staff walkouts and a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3344518/louvre-museum-director-resigns-wake-brazen-crown-jewel-heist-paris?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3344518/louvre-museum-director-resigns-wake-brazen-crown-jewel-heist-paris?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:39:56 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The Paris prosecutors' office on Thursday said that nine people were being detained as part of an investigation into a suspected decade-long, €10 million (US$11.8 million) ticket fraud scheme at the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum. The arrests took place on Tuesday as part of a judicial investigation opened after the Louvre filed a complaint in December 2024, the prosecutors’ office said. The loss for the museum over the past decade is estimated to exceed €10 million, it said. Those... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3343382/9-arrested-over-louvre-ticket-fraud-scheme-involving-chinese-tourists?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3343382/9-arrested-over-louvre-ticket-fraud-scheme-involving-chinese-tourists?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:56:20 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The Louvre Museum said on Monday that it was closing one of its galleries as a precaution after an audit revealed structural weaknesses in some of the beams in the building. The Campana Gallery, which houses nine rooms dedicated to ancient Greek ceramics, will be closed while investigations are conducted into “certain beams supporting the floors of the second floor” above it, a statement said. The announcement has no link to the recent robbery at the world’s most visited art gallery, but is more... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3333159/louvre-museum-paris-closes-gallery-due-structural-weakness?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3333159/louvre-museum-paris-closes-gallery-due-structural-weakness?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:10:00 +0000 Wasi Mirza Wasi Mirza With the rise of social media and generative AI, how much of what we see online is true? In this new series, SCMP Fact-Check, the Post investigates claims circulating online and debunks viral misinformation impacting the daily lives of Hongkongers. A daring daytime heist of jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris on October 19 made international headlines. During the heist, the thieves parked a truck with an extendable ladder under the museum’s Apollo Gallery, and used cutting equipment to get... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3333036/ai-generated-scenes-frances-2025-louvre-heist-circulate-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3333036/ai-generated-scenes-frances-2025-louvre-heist-circulate-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:52:44 +0000 Reuters Reuters The audacious daytime robbery of historical jewels worth US$102 million from the Paris Louvre museum last month was executed by petty criminals rather than professionals from the world of organised crime, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday. On a Sunday morning two weeks ago, two men parked a movers’ lift outside the Louvre, rode up to the second storey, smashed a window, cracked open display cases with angle grinders, and then fled on the back of scooters driven by two accomplices in a heist... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3331255/louvre-heist-work-petty-criminals-not-organised-crime-paris-prosecutor-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3331255/louvre-heist-work-petty-criminals-not-organised-crime-paris-prosecutor-says?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:34:22 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A woman arrested this week along with four other suspects over the unprecedented jewel heist at the Louvre was charged and remanded in custody on Saturday. The 38-year-old was in tears as she appeared at a Paris court, saying she feared for “her children” and for herself. She has been charged with complicity in organised theft and criminal conspiracy with a view to committing a crime. The magistrate justified the detention of the woman who lives in the French capital’s northern suburb of La... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3331199/woman-charged-over-louvre-heist-tears-court?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3331199/woman-charged-over-louvre-heist-tears-court?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:28:10 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse French police have arrested five more people, including a prime suspect, over this month’s daring Louvre museum robbery, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday. Dozens of detectives have been hunting for four thieves who used a truck with a moving lift and cutting gear to break into a first-floor gallery at the museum on October 19, fleeing with jewellery worth an estimated US$102 million. The latest arrests come after two suspects were charged on Wednesday with theft and criminal conspiracy.... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3330825/2-men-arrested-louvre-heist-be-charged-jewels-not-found?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3330825/2-men-arrested-louvre-heist-be-charged-jewels-not-found?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:33:34 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse French authorities have detained two of the suspected robbers believed to have stolen precious crown jewels from the Louvre in a museum heist that stunned the world, officials said on Sunday. A swarm of investigators had been mobilised to track down the thieves who robbed the famous museum in broad daylight on October 19, making off with jewellery worth an estimated US$102 million in just a few minutes. The two suspects were known to the police for committing thefts, a source close to the case... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3330387/investigators-arrest-two-suspects-louvre-jewel-heist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3330387/investigators-arrest-two-suspects-louvre-jewel-heist?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:23:52 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The glittering sapphires, emeralds and diamonds that once adorned France’s royals could well be gone forever, experts say after a brazen, seven-minute heist in broad daylight left the nation stunned and the government struggling to explain a new debacle at the Louvre. Each stolen piece represents the pinnacle of 19th-century haute joaillerie, or high jewellery. For the royals, they were more than decoration. The pieces were political statements of France’s wealth, power and cultural import.... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/luxury/luxury-news/article/3330008/louvre-heist-which-high-jewellery-pieces-once-worn-french-royals-were-stolen?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/luxury/luxury-news/article/3330008/louvre-heist-which-high-jewellery-pieces-once-worn-french-royals-were-stolen?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:37:00 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The director of the Louvre on Wednesday admitted there was inadequate security camera coverage of the outside walls of the museum, three days after a brazen daytime heist stunned the French capital. Senators grilled Laurence des Cars over how thieves were able on Sunday to make off with an estimated €88 million (US$102 million) in jewels from the world-famous museum in just seven minutes. The heist has renewed scrutiny of security at French museums. “Despite our efforts, despite our hard work on... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3329989/louvre-chief-says-heist-enabled-cctv-gaps-offers-resign?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3329989/louvre-chief-says-heist-enabled-cctv-gaps-offers-resign?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:18:06 +0000 dpa dpa Almost 2,000 gold and silver coins were stolen during a nighttime burglary at a French museum – just hours after the spectacular theft at the Louvre in Paris. The latest incident involved a break-in at the House of Enlightenment, Denis Diderot, in Landres in northeastern France on Sunday night. It houses manuscripts, letters and historical objects from the 18th century. The thieves made off with around 2,000 silver and gold coins, according to a statement issued by the local authority on... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3329972/more-treasures-stolen-another-french-museum-after-louvre-robbery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3329972/more-treasures-stolen-another-french-museum-after-louvre-robbery?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:28:32 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The powerful gods of ancient Egypt are having a get-together at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. It has been more than a decade since the museum’s last big Egypt show, so “Divine Egypt” – a lavish exploration of how ancient Egyptians depicted their gods – is a major event, as evidenced by the crowds that have been packing the exhibition since its October 12 opening. “It’s the first ancient culture that you learn in school,” says Diana Craig Patch, the Met’s curator of Egyptian... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3329918/how-ancient-egyptians-depicted-their-gods-shown-more-200-objects-met?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3329918/how-ancient-egyptians-depicted-their-gods-shown-more-200-objects-met?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:15:13 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The jewellery stolen from the Louvre in Paris was valued at more than US$100 million, a French prosecutor said on Tuesday, as the museum’s director was set to face security questions from a Senate committee over the brazen weekend heist. The director, Laurence des Cars, has not made any public statement since thieves made off with royal jewels during a daylight robbery on Sunday that took just seven minutes. The Louvre reopened on Wednesday following two days of shut doors for the investigation... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3329856/louvre-heist-jewels-valued-over-us100-million-director-faces-grilling?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3329856/louvre-heist-jewels-valued-over-us100-million-director-faces-grilling?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:03:55 +0000 Reuters Reuters Crime gangs around Europe were increasingly robbing valuable jewels and gold from cash-needy museums like the Louvre, but while law enforcement often caught thieves, they struggled to recover the priceless goods, police and art experts have said. Only a small pool of criminals would be capable of such a job as Sunday’s audacious robbery in Paris and may already be known to police, the specialists said. But the objects themselves could be quickly broken down into component parts and sold on. “If... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3329749/louvre-jewels-may-be-irrecoverable-french-police-race-against-time?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3329749/louvre-jewels-may-be-irrecoverable-french-police-race-against-time?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:54:37 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The Louvre was closed for a second day on Monday as police hunted for thieves who broke in and stole priceless jewels in a spectacular daylight robbery. Officials said a team of 60 investigators was working on the theory that an organised crime group was behind the theft on Sunday of nine pieces of jewellery, one of which – a crown covered in more than 1,000 diamonds – they dropped as they fled. The thieves arrived at around 9.30am, shortly after the museum opened at 9.00am, and completed the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3329593/daylight-robbery-thieves-steal-priceless-french-crown-jewels-louvre-museum-paris?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3329593/daylight-robbery-thieves-steal-priceless-french-crown-jewels-louvre-museum-paris?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:49:38 +0000 Sasha Gonzales Sasha Gonzales Being diagnosed with cancer at a young age can stir up a range of emotions, from fear and anger to anxiety to sadness. May Yeung understands this well. In 2019, at just 30 years old, the Hong Kong-based artist was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer after a year-long struggle with headaches, abdominal pain, cold sweats and fever. Yeung, who specialises in sculpture-making, was at the peak of her career; just three days before the diagnosis, she won a Hong Kong Top 10 Outstanding Young... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3328091/hong-kong-artist-breast-cancer-30-met-husband-during-treatment-became-mum-2023?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3328091/hong-kong-artist-breast-cancer-30-met-husband-during-treatment-became-mum-2023?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:00:07 +0000 Cherry Liu Cherry Liu Edgy Broadway producer Jordan Roth has once again redefined creative boundaries with Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty, a trio of groundbreaking live performances held at the Louvre on July 10. The performances were part of La Nuit de la Mode, an evening celebrating the Louvre’s first-ever major exhibition of haute couture. Collaborating with president of the Louvre Laurence des Cars, Roth transformed the iconic museum into a living canvas, with elements of the space and its art projected onto... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3318607/meet-jordan-roth-who-just-did-live-art-installation-louvre-tony-award-winning-broadway-producer-was?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3318607/meet-jordan-roth-who-just-did-live-art-installation-louvre-tony-award-winning-broadway-producer-was?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:00:09 +0000