president and director of the Louvre Museum in Paris, Laurence des Carssubmitted his resignation due to the numerous crises of the museum, which was accepted this Tuesday by French President Emmanuel Macron, he announced this Tuesday at the Elysée.
“The head of state accepted it and called it an act of responsibility at a time when the largest museum in the world needs calm and a new impulse to fulfill the important tasks of security, modernization and project “Louvre – Nouvelle Renaissance”“, the French Presidency said in a press release.
The French Museum, a symbol of French and international culture and one of the most important art galleries in the world, has triggered various scandals since October 19 last year with the news that a group of encapuchados successfully stole a new piece of “incalculable value”.
This movie crime, that it lasted only 4 minutes and requiring the use of a raised platform, I must consider the museum’s security measures to protect important objects Mona Lisa or Venus of Milo.
Des Cars, who initially tendered his resignation, which was not accepted by Culture Minister Rachida Dati, ensured he was notified in advance of the National Assembly “Deterioration and general obsolescence of the Louvre, its buildings and infrastructure”.
Huelga ruled that the French government had taken note of the shortcomings shown by Cars. By 2025, Emmanuel Macron announced a project to rebuild the Louvre (“Louvre – New Renaissance”), among other things due to the transition Mona Lisa to a new separate room and a new large-scale entrance that allows you to ease access to the crystal pyramid.
However, these measures do not appear to be sufficient to alleviate the problems that followed the October story. Last December, the museum was visited for several days due to the hue and cry of its workers, who protested against the scandal of robbers and the general poor condition of the facilities.
At this moment, God give the employees a reason in what respect the deterioration of the infrastructure: on February 13 we saw within a few months there was a second flood in the various rooms of the museum due to the rupture of the tuberia in a bad condition, in which the Sala Cuadrada, which houses the collections of pre-classical Greece, was particularly affected.
Last week in February, even more disastrous for the institution, a police officer at the Louvre uncovered fraud in entrances and tourist guides on a “large scale”. An operation that includes the detention of 9 museum employees.
The last chance, with which the security measures of the Paris museum occurred for only one day, was once again placed on canvas. El pasado domingo, British group activists Everyone hates Elon (Everybody in the World Hates Elon) posted a photo taken by Reuters photographer Andrés Mountbatten-Windsor, husband of King Carlos III, in one of the rooms. of the United Kingdom, at the end of his questioning last week, on February 19, over his involvement in the Epstein case.
A cascade of scandals that finally led Des Cars to step on the resignation paper for the second time, this time accepted by the French executive.
Leave a Reply