From the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 to the French Crown Jewels heist this past weekend, the Parisian museum has seen some audacious crimes over the decades.

The brazen robbery on Sunday has put a spotlight on security protocols in the sprawling museum, which have been tested over the years by break-ins and thefts.

Museum heists, particularly ones involving historic and valuable items, have shocked the world and inspired mystery and suspicion for more than a century.

Much like Paris, Las Vegas has also been the scene of some pretty notorious and headline-grabbing break-ins and robberies over the years.

The necklace and earrings are among the eight pieces stolen from the Louvre in a brazen heist that took place the morning of Sunday 19. They had been on display in the Galerie d’Apollon, a testament to the efforts of the Friends of the Louvre society to reassemble the collection that had been sold at auction in 1887 in an attempt by the third republic to rid the country of any evidence of its imperial past.

Much of the blame has been placed on the Louvre’s security camera system. The building’s exterior is “surrounded by cameras,” but there “were not enough officers to continuously monitor the feeds.” Other factors include the museum’s ongoing construction,

Museum security concerns rise after the latest Louvre robbery, as experts recall other major art thefts, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's still-unsolved heist from 1990.

Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful art heists, dating back to the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.

On October 19, 2025, the Louvre Museum faced a dramatic seven-minute robbery when thieves stole nine priceless jewels from the Apollo Gallery. The dar