Richard Whiddington, New Louvre Chief Christophe Leribault Reveals His Vision for the Museum Post-Heist, ArtNet, 6 May 2026
“The Louvre is entering a period of transformation,” Leribault said.
The Apollo Gallery, Louis XIV’s ornate reception hall that was the site of the Louvre heist in October last year, will reopen to the public in July. It will do so, however, without its display cases packed with the Sun King’s precious minerals. Those will be moved to the Louvre’s Richelieu wing, allowing for the Romantic wall paintings of Apollo to speak for themselves, thereby turning the space into the museum’s very own version of Versailles’s Hall of Mirrors.