The Louvre reopened “normally” this Friday (19), after employees of the most visited museum in the world voted to end the three-day strike to protest working conditions and amid the crisis caused by the spectacular jewelry theft in October.
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The famous art gallery was completely closed on Monday (15), at the start of the mobilization. After the usual weekly closure on Tuesday, the museum opened partially on Wednesday and Thursday to accommodate the many visitors waiting to enter.
Management indicated this Friday that the museum was open “normally”.
The workers, gathered in an assembly shortly before, voted against the continuation of the strike, but maintained the call for a strike after the end-of-year holidays, due to “insufficient progress” in the negotiations, the CGT and CFDT unions told AFP.
The next meeting of employees to decide on the resumption of the strike is scheduled for January 5.
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The mobilization comes in a context of crisis at the Louvre, which welcomed nearly nine million visitors in 2024, mostly foreigners.
The museum has been in the spotlight since the spectacular October 19 burglary, in which four men broke into the museum through a window and took several crown jewels, valued at more than $100 million (nearly 550 million reais), in just a few minutes.
The institution also had to close a gallery in November due to the deterioration of the building and suffered a water leak a few weeks ago that damaged hundreds of works in the Library of Egyptian Antiquities.
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