Four masked thieves recently stole three masterpiece paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse worth over $10 million from a museum in northern Italy in a brazen three-minute heist, outlets reported.
A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the Louvre Museum – but this time it wasn’t jewel thieves. It was workers installing security bars on the window used to break into the Paris landmark’s Apollo Gallery in October’s stunning heist.
Workers at the Louvre Museum voted Monday to strike over working conditions and other complaints, dealing another blow to the Paris landmark and home of the “Mona Lisa” after an embarrassing jewelry heist in October.
Workers at the Louvre Museum voted Monday for strikes to protest their work conditions, a ticket-price hike for non-European visitors and security weaknesses that a brazen daylight theft of France’s Crown Jewels highlighted in October.
The Paris prosecutor announced four more arrests Tuesday in connection with the stunning heist at the Louvre Museum in October by a gang that made off with $102 million worth of jewels.
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Cairo held its inaugural event on Saturday, drawing a huge amount of media and online attention to the beautiful new 258,000-square-foot facility with a massive drone and fireworks display.
The Paris prosecutor said Sunday that two of the suspects in the Louvre jewels heist had previously been convicted in a theft case together 10 years ago, as three alleged members of the team of four are now in custody.
Paris police made five more arrests overnight, including a “prime suspect”, but still haven’t retrieved any of the stolen jewels.
French authorities have arrested two men in connection with the brazen Crown Jewel heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris after a week long investigation.
Head of security at the Louvre was a diversity hire who was chosen because of her characteristics rather than “competence”, it was claimed.
A report from the French Court of Auditors leaked in the wake of the spectacular jewellery robbery at the Louvre has found that there have been “persistent” delays to upgrading the famed museum’s security.
A tourist is now internet-famous after being caught damaging a piece of artwork at a museum in Verona, Italy.
Artifacts preserved inside a 100-year-old time capsule were revealed Wednesday at the National WWI Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Academy Museum has finally agreed to fix its antisemitic exhibit attacking Hollywood’s legendary founders.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures finally added an exhibit acknowledging the men who created Hollywood, but it mostly trashes them.
A climate activist was arrested after sticking an “apocalypse” poster on top of Claude Monet’s “The Poppies” in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
Two climate activists threw soup at the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s famed Mona Lisa painting in Paris on Sunday morning.
Two Just Stop Oil activists were arrested after using hammers to smash the glass protecting a painting at the National Gallery in London.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles will host a Drag Queen Story Hour event for children, with drag queens performing live readings of scenes from the highly sexual and ribald movies of John Waters.
More than 40 Congressional Republicans sent a letter to Smithsonian Institute’s Secretary Lonnie Bunch on Tuesday, demanding to know why Smithsonian National Air Space Museum (NASM) staff allegedly kicked out students for wearing pro-life hats.
After 16 years, New York City’s 9/11 Tribute Museum will close its doors for good this week.
The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) website’s biography section now prominently features three biological males who live and dress as females.
Two men have been arrested while two others allegedly remain on the run after armed thieves conducted a daylight raid on a major European art fair.
Hollywood’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was so desperate to be multicultural, it snubbed the Jewish men who created the film business.
Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen’s affinity for drinking tea will be examined in a Black Lives Matter-style “historical interrogation” at a museum honouring the famed writer.
Houston Police responded to calls of a break-in at the city’s Museum of Fine Arts Tuesday night, leading to a lengthy search along the nearby bayou and sewers after the suspects reportedly escaped by boat.
Scotland’s oldest public museum has created the position of ‘Curator of Discomfort’ to take the museum out of its “institutional comfort zone” and confront historical and modern-day “white supremacy”.
San Diego’s “Museum of Man” is being changed to “Museum of Us” in what is described as a move toward decolonization.
An Oxford-educated, American-born museum curator has been advising how to do permanent damage to bronze statues using corrosive chemicals.
The state of Illinois has found that the Lincoln Museum offered Glenn Beck the use of the historic Gettysburg Address for his event display.
Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan has come out in support of a British slavery museum in the capital, an idea promoted by the socialist-progressive Fabian Society.
A steamer that vanished beneath the waters of Lake Superior more than a century ago has finally been found.
The grief in Brazil over the loss of the 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro to a fire Sunday night has yielded to outrage, as protesters demand the government better fund protection of national treasures and the administrators in charge of the museum decry negligence in remarks Tuesday.
A California man pleaded guilty Friday to swiping a $550,000 gold bar dating back to the 1600s from a museum in Key West, Florida.
The museum is well worth a visit, even you do not care about basketball, because of the sheer spectacle of intense devotion to a single topic.
The Art Ludique museum in Paris is set to close in the new year after a former nearby migrant camp has been blamed for gutting visitor numbers.
After ten years of planning and construction, plus over a billion dollars invested, a new branch of the fabled Louvre museum will open on the island of Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi this weekend.
The Getty Center museum in Los Angeles was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after an unidentified caller reportedly called in a bomb threat.
The Auschwitz museum said Tuesday it has recovered 16,000 long-lost items belonging to Jews killed at the Nazi death camp, decades after they were stored away and forgotten by Poland’s former communist regime.
(AFP) – Mohamed Al-Subeeh was a senior restorer at Syria’s best-known mosaic museum, but as war swept deeper into his province, destroying artefacts and threatening his and his family’s lives, he was forced to flee. The 64-year-old from Idlib province
