But no jewels will be on display and it will revert to its 17th century function as a state gallery, an informed source told AFP Monday.<\/p>\n
“The gallery will open on Wednesday,” the source said, confirming a report in Le Parisien newspaper and added Culture Minister Catherine Pegard would be present. <\/p>\n
In an interview with Le Parisien, the museum’s president Christophe Leribault said the “collections and precious objects” that had been displayed earlier, had been removed.<\/p>\n
On October 19, 2025, robbers disguised as construction workers entered the gallery using a truck-mounted lift in the morning and stole eight crown jewels, which remain missing.<\/p>\n
For the jewellery that was not stolen, “we are going to create a secure room, a vault with no windows, in another part of the museum,” Leribault said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a major construction project and we have to find the ideal location. And the funding,” he added.<\/p>\n
The Louvre burglary stunned the world and revealed major security lapses at the world’s most visited museum, visited by around nine million people annually.<\/p>\n
The theft also triggered an internal crisis at the Louvre, leading to the replacement of its president Laurence des Cars by Leribault.<\/p>\n
Security issues at the Louvre had been pushed to the background in recent years, a parliamentary commission on the security of museums in France said in mid-May. <\/p>\n
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