https://www.scmp.com/rss/524153/feed Located in Paris France the Louvre is a national art museum and historic monument. Its vast collection spans ancient civilisations to the 19th century. It houses masterpieces like the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Vincenzo La Torre Vincenzo La Torre Two of the biggest shows of the season – Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu – took place on the last day of Paris Fashion Week. With fewer shows on schedule in both Milan and Paris and not as many designer debuts as last season, this was a slightly subdued fashion month. Fashion obviously doesn’t operate in a vacuum and, over the last couple of weeks, it felt quite jarring to attend a fashion show after receiving yet another news alert about the conflict in Iran, but the show – or shows, in this case –... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/fashion-news/article/3346165/paris-fashion-week-2026-louis-vuitton-miu-miu-and-tributes-nature-and-mindfulness?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/fashion-news/article/3346165/paris-fashion-week-2026-louis-vuitton-miu-miu-and-tributes-nature-and-mindfulness?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:42:00 +0000 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 Should foreign tourists pay more for state-funded galleries than locals, or should art be accessible to all without discrimination? France is hiking prices for non-Europeans at the Louvre this week, provoking debate about so-called “dual pricing”. From January 14, any adult visitor from outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will have to pay €32 (US$37) to enter the Louvre – a 45 per cent increase – while the Palace of Versailles will up its prices by three... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3339857/louvre-ticket-price-increase-non-europeans-unabashed-nationalism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3339857/louvre-ticket-price-increase-non-europeans-unabashed-nationalism?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:15:08 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The ongoing strike at the Louvre is no longer just a labour dispute. It has become a test of how securely, credibly and competently the world’s most visited museum is being run. Behind the walkout are not only frayed labour relations, but a building itself under strain, with crumbling parts of the ageing former palace now deemed unsafe. At the heart of the crisis lies a deeper rupture: a US$102 million jewel heist that exposed security failures at the core of the institution and transformed... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3336826/louvre-crisis-why-jewel-heist-staff-unrest-push-museum-breaking-point?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3336826/louvre-crisis-why-jewel-heist-staff-unrest-push-museum-breaking-point?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:00:11 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse More than 600 items, including military medals and jewellery from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire, were stolen from a UK museum in September, police said on Thursday. Avon and Somerset Police have launched an appeal for information about four men captured on security cameras on September 25 outside a building in the southwestern city of Bristol, which housed items from the collection. “More than 600 artefacts of various descriptions... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3336116/600-artefacts-stolen-bristols-british-empire-collection-daring-heist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3336116/600-artefacts-stolen-bristols-british-empire-collection-daring-heist?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:17:18 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The thieves who stole crown jewels from the Louvre in October evaded police with just 30 seconds to spare due to avoidable security failures at the Paris museum, a damning investigation revealed on Wednesday. The investigation, ordered by the culture ministry after the embarrassing daylight heist, revealed that only one of two security cameras was working near the site where the intruders broke in on the morning of Sunday, October 19. Agents in the security control room did not have enough... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3335950/louvre-thieves-escaped-30-seconds-police-arrived-probe-finds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3335950/louvre-thieves-escaped-30-seconds-police-arrived-probe-finds?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:12 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Trade unions at the Louvre Museum have called for a rolling strike next week to demand urgent renovations and better working conditions, piling more bad news on the beleaguered Paris institution. Monday’s announcement came a day after the world’s most visited museum admitted to a major leak in late November and nearly two months after an embarrassing robbery in which French crown jewels were stolen from its permanent collection. In between those two incidents, it had to close a gallery... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3335663/louvre-trade-unions-call-strike-demand-renovations-better-working-conditions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3335663/louvre-trade-unions-call-strike-demand-renovations-better-working-conditions?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:07:38 +0000 Reuters Reuters A water leak last month damaged hundreds of books in the Egyptian antiquities department at the Louvre, underscoring the deteriorating state of the world’s most visited museum just weeks after a daring jewel heist exposed security flaws. Specialist website La Tribune de l’Art reported that around 400 rare books were affected, blaming poor pipe conditions. It said the department had long sought funds to protect the collection from such risks without success. Le Louvre’s deputy administrator,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3335538/water-leak-louvre-museum-paris-damages-books-egyptian-antiquities-department?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3335538/water-leak-louvre-museum-paris-damages-books-egyptian-antiquities-department?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:42:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse France on Friday charged the fourth alleged member of a four-person gang arrested over last month’s spectacular jewel heist at the Louvre, prosecutors said. On October 19, the gang raided the world’s most visited art museum in broad daylight, taking just seven minutes to steal jewellery worth an estimated US$102 million before fleeing on scooters. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau described the fourth suspect as a 39-year-old man born in the working-class Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis. “Already... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3334583/france-charges-fourth-suspect-daring-louvre-jewel-heist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3334583/france-charges-fourth-suspect-daring-louvre-jewel-heist?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:00:09 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse French authorities on Tuesday arrested four more people in the probe into last month’s spectacular daylight theft of imperial jewels from the Louvre museum, the top Paris prosecutor said. “They are two men aged 38 and 39, and two women aged 31 and 40, all from the Paris region,” Laure Beccuau said, following earlier charges against four others over the heist. On October 19, a four-person gang raided the Louvre, the world’s most visited art museum, in broad daylight, taking just seven minutes to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3334141/louvre-heist-4-more-arrested-france-over-us102-million-theft-napoleon-jewels?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3334141/louvre-heist-4-more-arrested-france-over-us102-million-theft-napoleon-jewels?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:20:53 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Swiss authorities were searching on Friday for two robbers who overpowered a security guard at an ancient Rome-themed museum in Lausanne, smashed a display case and made off with dozens of gold coins that had been displayed inside. City police said the suspects had bought tickets and waited until other visitors had left shortly before closing time on Thursday. “The two individuals assaulted and overpowered the guard. They then broke into a secured display case and stole several gold coins that... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3333757/swiss-police-hunt-2-men-after-gold-heist-museum-echoes-louvre-robbery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3333757/swiss-police-hunt-2-men-after-gold-heist-museum-echoes-louvre-robbery?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:39:12 +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 dpa dpa Thirty years in the making, the world’s biggest archaeological museum – and before its opening also the world’s most delayed museum – is now struggling to cope with the crowds. The Grand Egyptian Museum, located near the Giza Pyramids, was opened on November 1 in a lavish ceremony attended by dozens of world leaders and media representatives. Two weeks later, it is still welcoming an average of around 19,000 people every day, according to a spokesman. The collection includes the glittering... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3333018/grand-egyptian-museum-introduces-time-slots-due-constant-crowds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3333018/grand-egyptian-museum-introduces-time-slots-due-constant-crowds?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:22:25 +0000 dpa dpa The mystery surrounding a photo of a dapperly dressed young man, presumed to be a detective, taken in front of the Louvre in Paris just after thieves ran off with millions in jewels, has been solved. He is a 15-year-old from a Parisian suburb who had nothing to do with the investigation and was just trying to visit the world-famous museum with his mother that day, according to recent reports by German news magazine Der Spiegel and Associated Press, the news agency that took the photo. The man,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3332132/louvres-mystery-detective-suburban-teen-not-paris-sleuth?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3332132/louvres-mystery-detective-suburban-teen-not-paris-sleuth?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:49:16 +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 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 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 Vincenzo La Torre Vincenzo La Torre Louis Vuitton, which normally closes Paris Fashion Week, unveiled its spring/summer 2026 collection on the second day this season with an early afternoon show held at the Louvre on a beautiful sunny day. Here is the lowdown on the Louis Vuitton show and more from day two of Paris Fashion Week. “Cosy” is not the first word that comes to mind when picturing the aesthetic of Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton’s womenswear artistic director, but for spring/summer 2026, the designer delivered a... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/fashion-news/article/3327575/paris-fashion-week-louis-vuitton-channels-cosy-comfort-while-stella-mccartney-goes-bold?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/fashion-news/article/3327575/paris-fashion-week-louis-vuitton-channels-cosy-comfort-while-stella-mccartney-goes-bold?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Oct 2025 03:03:40 +0000