The Louvre Museum partially reopened its doors this Wednesday, despite the strike decided a few hours earlier by its employees, according to management and AFP journalists on site.
“Not all spaces are accessible, but the museum opens and the first visitors … “They are arriving,” the management of the famous Parisian art gallery told AFP.
Shortly before, some 300 employees voted this Wednesday to continue a second day of strike – after Monday – to demand better working conditions.
“The proposals from the Ministry of Culture were deemed insufficient and unacceptable by staff,” the CGT union wrote on Instagram.
The first day of the strike took place on Monday. Tuesday is the weekly closing day.
The museum, which welcomed nearly nine million visitors in 2024, has been in the eye of the hurricane since the spectacular burglary of October 19, when four men broke in through a window and took away in a few minutes several jewels valued at more than 100 million dollars.
A representative of the CFDT union, Valérie Baud, rightly warned of the risk of opening the museum in these conditions.
“It would not be appropriate for the management of the Louvre to endanger the security of the establishment,” he declared.
The establishment also had to close a gallery in November due to the deterioration of the building and suffered a water leak a few weeks ago which damaged hundreds of works in the library of Egyptian Antiquities.
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