Thieves steal historic artifacts from Louvre Museum

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Thieves steal historic artifacts from Louvre Museum

Image from Landon Kerr depicting the Apollon Gallery ceiling.


By: Scarlett LaBuda 


On Sunday, October 19 the Louvre Museum, one of the most visited museums in the world, was hit by thieves in just four minutes. The Louvre closed for the remainder of the day and the following Monday to investigate how the thieves did it and how they got away with it in broad daylight. 


The heist occurred just half an hour after the museum opened with visitors already gathering inside. This is being considered one of the highest profile heists in living history. Staff of the Louvre museum explained that as their staff thins, the crowds still come leaving the remaining staff strained and stressed from being overworked. 


The Louvre museum located in Paris is a national art museum and is considered one of the most famous museums in the world. The Louvre museum is well known for being the home of the Mona Lisa painting. While this is what it is best known for, the heist targeted some crown jewels belonging to Napoleon. 


The heist began just 270 yards from the Mona Lisa and unfolded from there. According to the AP, one object, the emerald-set imperial crown of Napoleon III’s wife, Empress Eugénie, containing more than 1,300 diamonds, was later found outside the museum, French authorities said. It was reportedly recovered broken.


A lift was used to execute the heist lifting the thieves up and into the museum through a window they had broken. The thieves then cut open glass display cases containing a royal French collection of 23 different pieces of jewels and jewelry in the Apollon Gallery. Once museum staff were alerted to the room the thieves fled on motorbike. 


According to officials, Eight objects were taken: a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a matching set linked to 19th-century French queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense; an emerald necklace and earrings from the matching set of Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte’s second wife; a reliquary brooch; Empress Eugénie’s diadem; and her large corsage-bow brooch –a prized 19th-century imperial ensemble.


As of this post the thieves have not yet been caught. 

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