The president and director of the Musée du Louvre, Laurence des Cars, submitted her resignation on February 24, 2026, after more than four years at the helm of the world's most famous museum. The announcement, accepted by French President Emmanuel Macron, marks…
Found at the foot of the Apollo Gallery, Empress Eugénie's crown escaped the violent theft that occurred on October 19, 2025, at the Louvre Museum. A fragment of a palmette was also found near the case containing the…
Jean Hey's Moulins Triptych is one of the most important masterpieces of early 16th-century French painting. For the public, it is a historic moment and an opportunity to admire up close a work that had never been exhibited in Paris.
The recent, sensational robbery of the royal collection at the Louvre is the latest in a very long series of thefts of noble objects, which have often not been adequately protected.
Only the Louvre could achieve such a feat: it holds the world's most important collection of David's paintings and drawings, including his very large-format canvases. The last major retrospective dedicated to the artist dates back to 1989, also at the Louvre...
From the Perugia robbery to the recent theft of Napoleon's jewels: a long trail of mysteries, planned actions, perhaps commissioned, destined for hidden private collections
Theft at the Louvre: Three hooded men allegedly managed to gain entry from the Seine side of the building, where work was underway. Armed with small chainsaws, they allegedly used a freight elevator to reach the Apollo Gallery. Empress Eugénie's crown was found broken. Previous investigations
The Louvre Museum announces that the two 18th-century snuffboxes, on loan to the Cognacq-Jay Museum for the "Luxe en poche" exhibition and stolen on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, during a highly violent armed robbery, have finally been…
The exhibition at the Louvre in Paris (14 May - 25 August 2025) aims to make these exceptional works known to the general public, by relating them to the historical, diplomatic and cultural context of their creation and then to their collection…
In the spring of 2025, the Louvre Museum will dedicate a major exhibition to the Mamluk Sultanate (1250 – 1517), retracing the glorious and unique history of this Egyptian-Syriac empire, which constituted a golden age for the Near East during the Islamic era. From…
The exhibition “LOUVRE COUTURE. Art Objects, Fashion Objects” is a surprising and unique dialogue between the masterpieces of the museum’s Art Objects department and significant pieces from the history of contemporary fashion, between 1960 and 2025, from Cristóbal Balenciaga…
The Louvre Museum and Uniqlo present a unique collaboration with Camille Henrot for the new Uniqlo UT t-shirt collection
Are today’s madmen the same as yesterday’s? This is one of the many questions posed by the Louvre’s new major autumn exhibition “Figures du fou”. Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques” from 16 October 2024. While on 2 October 2024,…
Louvre Abu Dhabi and Swiss watch brand Richard Mille have announced the judging panel and selected artists for the fourth edition of the highly anticipated annual exhibition and competition, Art Here 2024, and the Richard Mille Art Prize.
Today the Louvre has over 30.000 works of art, 70.000 square meters of exhibition space, 2.213 employees, 9 million visitors a year and above all Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Victory of Samothrace and Venus de Milo among the most…
The Parisian exhibition intends to present the Torlonia Collection, little known in France, in a context steeped in the history of ancient sculpture museums. It offers an intimate archaeological and aesthetic look at the extraordinary Torlonia marbles as they dialogue with the works of art…
As part of the program of cultural events accompanying the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, the exhibition will highlight how, in the name of sport, the disciplines of philology, history, art history and archeology have come together For…
How many weekends will be allowed to see the City of Light? We propose a long 2024-2025 calendar of temporary exhibitions organized by the Louvre museum not to be missed. Calendar to carry in your notebook throughout the year
The exhibition with 60 masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum opens in Paris. The meeting between the two heads of state strengthens friendship on major issues and leaves the controversy over immigration to the government.
Until September 18, 2023, the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix invites visitors to visit the gallery and see the work of the Romantic painter through a selection of works by delving into the social moment of his country's political period and the process…
An extraordinary exhibition celebrates the Neapolitan city at the Louvre. Six months of events on a European scale: it opens on 7 June
For the last days of the exhibition “Les Choses. A History of Still Life”, the Louvre Museum offers an exceptional evening of concerts, shows, workshops and meetings. Friday 13 January, from 18pm to 30pm, “La Nuit des Choses”
The Louvre Museum has invited Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis to design a monumental work exhibited in the Grand Réservé nord of the Jardin des Tuileries as part of the 2022 France-Portugal Season
The Delacroix and Nature exhibition (March 16 - June 27, 2022) invites the visitor to the painter's last apartment and studio to discover his ties to nature
The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's most famous work and the most important for the Musee du Louvre in virtual reality
It was November 8, 1793, a few years after the start of the French Revolution, when the historic Louvre palace became a museum open to the public
Along a journey full of 140 works, this exhibition “Le Corps et l'Âme. De Donatello à Michel-Ange” scheduled in Paris from the Louvre until 18 January 2021 – but subject to limitations due to health emergencies – was organized in…
The history and masterpieces of the Louvre, ABìCinema dedicated to the letter V of video games but also Luchino Visconti, Paolo Villaggio, Monica Vitti and Verdone, and the Borsino degli artists focused on Mimmo Rotella are the flagship services of FIRST…
I've visited the Louvre countless times, maybe every time I've been back to Paris, and I still haven't finished getting to know it. Today I went back and like the first time and I feel Parisian, but I'm not alone,…
The art critic and parliamentarian Vittorio Sgarbi collects the disappointment of tourists and the local population for the questionable concrete cube wanted by the municipal administration in the main square of San Candido which is in complete disagreement with the suggestive context…
The Mona Lisa may be housed in the halls of other museums - But who was the real Mona Lisa? All the secrets of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece
In Paris, the Mona Lisa is a kind of national monument, it is no wonder that it attracts the same number of visitors as the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame... but above all, in her there is that charm that hides so many secrets.
A man armed with a machete allegedly attacked a soldier shouting "Allah Akbar", but was wounded and stopped by another soldier - French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve: "It was a terrorist attack".
Michelangelo Pistoletto was part of the movement known as Arte Povera in the 60s. In 1998 he inaugurated Cittadellarte, a foundation based in a former wool factory in Biella, which brings together different disciplines with the…
The Louvre is not just any museum: in the last year alone, it has hosted 10 million visitors and closed a budget of 200 million euros - And then there's Leonardo's Mona Lisa, always in dispute with Italy: the press …
The ranking of the most popular art places on the social network sees the Museum of Modern Art in New York in first place, ahead of the Metropolitan and the Louvre. The MAXXI in Rome is the first Italian, only 70th. Simple ranking from social…
