It’s the heist that shook the whole world because it was worthy of a series or an action movie. On October 19, 2025, three men broke into the Louvre Museum and stole the Crown Jewels of France, worth a whopping 88 million euros. Nine months after this robbery, the Apollo Gallery in question will reopen on July 22, looking completely different!
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Goodbye jewelry, hello painting
Dozens of stolen jewels, worth several million euros, only three men who entered the Apollo Gallery using a lift before escaping on a scooter… The scenario is quite surprising, and yet this is exactly what the Louvre Museum experienced nine months ago.
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While the stolen jewels haven't been found yet, the Louvre is turning a new page in its history by reopening the Apollo Gallery to the public. There's just one small difference: this gallery has been emptied of all the objects that were on display. It will now serve as a grand gallery, just like it was in the 17th century, where visitors can admire no less than 41 paintings and 28 exceptional tapestries.
An invaluable room
« It’s our own Hall of Mirrors, with ceilings crafted by Le Brun and continued by several generations of 17th-century painters up to Delacroix.
We want visitors to experience it as the most luxurious room in the Louvre and to rediscover a bit of the palace beneath the museum », says Christophe Leribault, president of the Louvre, to the Parisien.What about the jewelry that hasn't been stolen ? They will be placed « in a safe, without windows, in another location in the museum ». For now, only two of the three robbers have been caught.
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