'Our cultural institutions not safe: If they could break into the Louvre, they can get in anywhere'

France 24 France 24 — 7min

Annette Young is pleased to welcome Christopher Marinello, veteran lawyer , founder of Art Recovery International and one of the world's foremost experts in recovering stolen, looted, and missing works of art.

The reopening of the Apollo Gallery at the Louvre, nine months after one of the most brazen museum thefts in recent history, marks more than the restoration of a famous exhibition space.

It exposes a broader tension between public access to cultural heritage and the growing vulnerability of museums in an era of increasingly sophisticated organised crime.
#Louvre #Security #FrenchCulture

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