FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 4 - Caught on Camera

Louvre Museum workers confirm strike action after $102M heist

Major unions say the museum is in ‘crisis’

The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2025

Water leak in Louvre damages hundreds of books in latest disaster for crisis-hit museum

Hundreds of historic works from Egyptian antiquities department destroyed just weeks after €88m jewel heist

The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2025

11 Books About Art Heists That Are Almost as Thrilling as Raiding the Louvre

Obsessed with unsolved painting theft and the underbelly of the art world? Allow us to recommend your next read.

Marie Claire · Dec 5, 2025

Louvre Museum to hike ticket price by 45 percent for non-EU visitors

Paris's Louvre Museum said it would raise ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, meaning American, British and Chinese tourists will be among those paying €32 for entry – an increase of €10 on the current admission price. Prices will also increase at four other establishments, including the Château de Versailles.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 28, 2025

Louvre hikes ticket prices weeks after art heist

It will help to pay for an overhaul of the historic building

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2025

Police arrest four new suspects over Louvre royal jewels heist

French authorities have arrested four more people in the investigation into October's theft of imperial jewels from the Louvre museum, the Paris prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 25, 2025

Four more people arrested in connection with Louvre heist

French media say those held include alleged final member of four-person gang who broke into museum

The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2025

Four more suspects arrested over Louvre jewellery heist, Paris prosecutors say

Two men and two women from the Paris region have been taken into custody in connection with the theft at the Louvre last month, prosecutors said.

Euronews · Nov 25, 2025

Louvre boss admits 'responsibility' and pledges security boost after jewel heist

The embattled head of Paris's Louvre Museum has promised a bigger police presence, including inside the museum, and security cameras to prevent future thefts, following last month's €87 million jewel heist.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 20, 2025

How the Louvre thieves exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion – and what it reveals about AI

On a sunny morning on October 19 2025, four men allegedly walked into the world’s most-visited museum and left, minutes later, with crown jewels worth €88 million (£76 million). The theft from Paris’s Louvre Museum – one of the world’s most surveilled cultural institutions – took just under eight minutes.

The Conversation · Nov 18, 2025