Following a recent jewelry heist, the famous Paris art institute is increasing admissions for select visitors and will use the added funds to overhaul its surveillance system, among other much-needed updates to the historic structure.

PARIS -- A glittering exhibition of royal jewels is opening Wednesday in Paris even as the city still reels from the brazen crown-jewel heist at the nearby Louvre Museum. The four-minute operation in October emptied cases in the Louvre's Apollo Gallery, forced its closure and rattled public confidence in France’s cultural security.

Weeks after the brazen robbery of crown jewels, Paris' Louvre saw hundreds of works in its Egypt section damaged by water from a leaky old heating system.

As masked men hacked a hole in a window at the Louvre Museum in Paris in October, a security camera inside the targeted Apollo Gallery was picking up the spot where they were working, Noel Corbin, the head of France’s inspectorate general of culture, told the country's Senate at a hearing on Wednesday.

The burglars who robbed Paris's Louvre museum benefited from 30 seconds of security lapses that helped ensure their getaway with France's still-missing crown jewels, an inquiry from France's culture ministry into the spectacular heist showed on Wednesday.