Museums & galleries

Louvre heist probe: What we know

The fifth suspect in the theft was charged with being an accomplice, but was released under judicial supervision pending a trial.

Louvre heist probe still aims to ‘recover jewellery’, top prosecutor says

Top Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said investigators were keeping an open mind as to where the loot might be.

First-ever pho museum opens in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City

The museum is the first private culinary museum in Vietnam licensed by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports.

No plans to publicly display carcass of euthanised Himalayan vulture: Lee Kong Chian museum

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum houses more than a million natural history specimen.

French museum fare hikes for non-European tourists spark outcry

From Jan 14, any adult visitor from outside the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will have to pay €32 (S$48) to enter the Louvre – a 45-per cent increase.

Paris’ Louvre museum opens but some parts stay closed as staff resume strike

Staff are calling for more hiring, pay increases and better use of the museum's funds.

Where do aprons go to retire? A tiny museum in Mississippi

The Apron Museum in Iuka, Mississippi, houses some 6,000 aprons dating back to the 1860s.

Letter From Taipei

China frowns as Mona Lisa of Taiwan’s palace museum goes on loan to Prague

wyyletter26 - While the iconic Jadeite Cabbage is on display in the Czech Republic, two “cabbage sisters" are shown in its place.

CREDIT: YIP WAI YEE

This museum housed 120,000 works of art. Now it is empty

The Pompidou’s postmodern design, which shocked traditionalists when it was first built, in Paris, May 12, 2025. The Pompidou Center is the place to see contemporary art in Paris. Or it was, until curators put its astonishing collection into storage. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Dec 24, 2025

US President Donald Trump (left) and late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (second from left), in photos released by Democrats sitting on the House Oversight Committee in Washington.

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