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The Louvre is reopening the Galerie d'Apollon following the 2025 theft. It will remain empty.

After nearly nine months of closure, the Louvre in Paris is reopening the Galerie d’Apollon ( Apollo Gallery) to the public—one of the most famous and monumental spaces in the Parisian museum. The space, located on the first floorof the Denon ...
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Sculpting Color: Masterpieces of 17th-Century Spanish Sculpture at the Louvre

From October 7, 2026, to January 25, 2027, in the Napoleon Hall of the Louvre Museum, the exhibition *Sculpting Color: Masterpieces from the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid will run alongside the exhibition dedicated to Francisco de Zurbar&...
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Louvre: Director Sounds the Alarm: “The Museum Is on the Brink; Urgent Investment Is Needed”

Less than four months after taking the helm at the Louvre, the new president and director of the French museum, Christophe Leribault, paints an extremely troubling picture of the state of the world’s largest museum institution. Appearing before...
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Louvre, Delacroix regains his colors: restored masterpiece on Crusaders in Constantinople

In Paris, one of the absolute masterpieces of Eugène Delacroix (Saint-Maurice, 1798 - Paris, 1863) is back in its original guise. After painstaking conservation work lasting nearly a year, The Crusaders' Entry into Constantinople (April 12, 12...
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The Louvre heist becomes a movie: Romain Gavras brings the heist of the decade to cinema

The sensational theft that occurred in the fall of 2025 at the Louvre is set to become a film. Indeed, French director Romain Gavras will develop a feature film inspired by the theft of the French Crown Jewels that took place on October 19, 2025 ins...
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Louvre, two architectural firms chosen to design museum renovation

In Paris, the Louvre Museum begins a new phase in its architectural and urban history with the selection of the project signed by Studios Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects for the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance transformation plan. The announce...
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At the Louvre, an exhibition leads to the discovery of ancient Mesopotamia through the theme of water

From May 20, 2026, to March 15, 2027, the Louvre in Paris will host the exhibition Primordial Water: Lessons from Mesopotamia, curated by Ariane Thomas, director of the Department of Oriental Antiquities and head of the collections of Recent Mesopota...
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Martin Schongauer, at the Louvre the exhibition on the master of the late Middle Ages

Nicknamed "Martin Schön," or "the handsome Martin," by Albrecht Dürer, Martin Schongauer (Colmar, c. 1445 - Vieux-Brisach, 1491), one of the greatest German painters of the 15th century, returns to center stage with a major exhibition sched...
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