#louvre-museum

#louvre-museum

In it, des Cars forcefully pushed back on the idea that she had neglected the museum's security, telling the Times that she had been working on dramatically improving the system this year. Des Cars said that she had already submitted the museum to a broad security review and a new security master plan was devised. The plan called for an additional 100 cameras added to the museum's perimeter, and was in the process of being implemented when the thieves struck last month. Several companies, she told the Times, had already bid on the project.

Paris' Louvre Museum said on Monday that it was closing one of its galleries as a precaution after an audit revealed structural weaknesses in some of the beams in the building. The Campana Gallery, which houses nine rooms dedicated to ancient Greek ceramics, will be closed while investigations are conducted into "the particular weakness of certain beams supporting the floors of the second floor", it said.