A rediscovered 2018 security report commissioned by the Louvre flagged the same balcony used in the museum’s $102 million jewel theft.

The raid on the Louvre is far from the first museum heist. But several factors have combined to make Europe fertile ground for cultural thefts.

On October 19, 2025, thieves disguised as construction workers stole eight pieces of French Crown Jewels valued at €88 million from the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, in a scheme now known as the Louvre Heist. The heist was covered by hundreds of news publications around the world, but it wasn’t until now that it was explored in a documentary.

But one has to admire, amid all the evident haste, how quickly “Louvre Heist: Minute by Minute” has been prepped and presented. The jewel heist took place little more than a month ago. The ice is still hot,

The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, is now at the center of a stunning heist. Over the weekend, thieves stole priceless jewels once worn by French royalty, and today they are still on the run. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is ...

In preparation for the Louvre guidebook that she was writing at the time, curator Dominique de Font-Réaulx said she spent a month following visitors around the Paris museum to see what they were looking at. “Don’t worry, I didn’t get too close to ...

From December 3, 2025, the Gallery of the Five Continents will be open to visitors at the Louvre Museum, offering an opportunity to admire works from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, in a journey that reveals the diversity and dialogue of human creativity across the globe.

Why not finally make a name for myself after bleak decades of poverty and ostracism, like Mendelson Joe and Vincent van Gogh?