Reopening of the Apollo Gallery

Reopening of the Apollo Gallery, Louvre Museum, July 2026

Closed since the theft of October 19, 2025, the Apollo Gallery reopened to the public on Wednesday, July 22, 2026.

The collections and precious objects it housed have been removed to restore the painted and sculpted wall decorations to their rightful place. The gallery has thus regained its stately purpose, conceived as a work of art in itself in the 17th ^century . It also provides a space for strolling and contemplation within the museum, connecting the Apollo Rotunda to the Salon Carré and opening onto the Grande Galerie.

A royal gallery, decorated by the greatest French artists (Le Brun, Girardon, Lagrenée, Delacroix, etc.), the Apollo Gallery served as a model for the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.

Originally a reception gallery designed for Louis XIV, it boasts exceptional decoration. Measuring 61.34 meters in length and 15 meters in ceiling height (total area of 600 square meters), it was built over 350 years ago, but its decoration has been enriched over more than two centuries. It is one of the most iconic spaces in the Louvre, with its rich decor of stucco, paintings, and tapestries—masterpieces from the Gobelins Manufactory commissioned for the gallery by Duban and installed in 1852.