Open valve in heating system affects 300 to 400 items just weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised security concerns
A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre’s Egyptian department, the Paris museum said on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure.
“Between 300 and 400 works” were affected by the leak discovered on 26 November, the museum’s deputy administrator, Francis Steinbock, said, describing them as “Egyptology journals” and “scientific documentation” used by researchers.
The damaged items dated from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and were “extremely useful” but “by no means unique”, Steinbock added.
Sounds like those artifacts were in better hands with the thieves…
These weren’t really attracts. These were journals kept by archeologists much more recently.
And quite honestly, the artifacts would be in better hands with the people from whom they were stolen.
Does the Louvre actively refuse all attempts to retrieve original works and tell the requestors the fuck off the way the British Museum does?
From my understanding that’s more of a British-specific problem, not most museums in general.
