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The Louvre museum in Paris has announced it is closing one of its galleries because of structural weaknesses.<\/p>\n
The Campana Gallery – consisting of nine rooms which host Greek ceramics – will remain shut as engineers investigate “certain beams supporting the floors”, the Louvre said.<\/p>\n
The announcement adds to the museum’s unwelcome attention following a high-profile heist last month in which jewels worth \u20ac88m (\u00a376m; $102m) were taken.<\/p>\n
Criticism has focused on lax security at the world’s most-visited museum in the French capital.<\/p>\n
Four people have been arrested over the heist, but the jewels have not been recovered.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Monday, the Louvre said that structural issues in offices on the second floor – above the Campana Gallery in the Sully wing of the museum – had led to its decision.<\/p>\n
“During these investigations, the Campana Gallery… will be closed to the public as a precautionary measure,” it said.<\/p>\n
Three weeks after the jewel theft, a report was released in which the Court of Auditors criticised managers who had preferred to invest in new artworks and exhibitions rather than basic upkeep and protection of the museum.<\/p>\n
Basing its findings on the years 2018-24, the report found the museum had spent \u20ac105.4m (\u00a392.7m) on buying new artworks and \u20ac63.5m on exhibition spaces.<\/p>\n
But at the same time it spent only \u20ac26.7m on maintenance works, and \u20ac59.5m on restoration of the palace building.<\/p>\n
Watch: Two people leave Louvre in lift mounted to vehicle<\/p>\n
On the day of the heist, the suspects arrived at 09:30 (07:30 GMT), just after the museum opened to visitors.<\/p>\n
The suspects arrived with a stolen vehicle-mounted mechanical lift to gain access to the Galerie d’Apollon (Gallery of Apollo) via a balcony close to the River Seine. The men used a disc cutter to crack open display cases housing the jewellery.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said the thieves were inside for four minutes and made their escape on two scooters waiting outside at 09:38, before switching to cars.<\/p>\n
One of the stolen items – a crown – was dropped during the escape. The other seven jewels have not been found.<\/p>\n
The fear is that they have already been spirited abroad, though the prosecutor in charge of the case has said she is still hopeful they can be retrieved intact.<\/p>\n
Those arrested over the heist that shocked France were all petty criminals rather than organised crime professionals, Paris’s prosecutor has said.<\/p>\n
Since the incident, security measures have been tightened around France’s cultural institutions.<\/p>\n
The Louvre has even transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France.<\/p>\n
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The Marie-Louise necklace and a pair of earrings were among the eight items stolen <\/p>\n
A tiara worn by the Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, was taken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters The Louvre museum in Paris has announced it is closing one of its galleries because of structural…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-292255","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-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}