Louvre suffers another major setback as burst pipe damages rare books, adding to troubles following theft of Napoleon crown ...

Hundreds of works were damaged at the Louvre in Paris due to a burst pipe that was triggered by flooding, the museum’s deputy ...

A water leak at the Louvre in Paris has damaged hundreds of books, exposing further issues at the world’s largest museum after a spectacular heist in October.

The Louvre’s year has gone from bad to worse. Hundreds of works in the French museum’s library for Egyptian antiquities were ...

Weeks after the brazen robbery of crown jewels, Paris' Louvre saw hundreds of works in its Egypt section damaged by water ...

A water leak at the Louvre has damaged hundreds of books – just weeks after jewels worth £76m were stolen from the famous ...

Le Louvre's deputy administrator Francis Steinbock acknowledged the issue had been known for years and said repairs were ...

Water from a burst pipe damaged between 300 and 400 books in the Louvre Museum’s Department of Egyptian Antiquities, ...

A water leak inside the museum’s Egyptian Antiquities library has damaged between 300 and 400 historic research books, the ...

Up to 400 documents have been damaged by the leak, according to Francis Steinbock, the deputy administrator of the museum. But no works of art were affected.

The Louvre and the Orsay, the premier museums of Paris, have reopened after an emergency closure last week to move masterpieces to higher ground during the city's worst flooding in decades. Visitors ...

Compounding embarrassment over the state of the Louvre's security system, upkeep and bureaucracy are now in the spotlight in the wake of a foreseeable water leak that damaged hundreds of historically ...