Paris’s Louvre museum said on Thursday, November 27, it would raise ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, meaning US, British and Chinese tourists among others will have to pay $37 to get in.
The museum told Agence France-Presse (AFP) the 45% price hike aims to boost annual revenues by up to $23 million to fund structural improvements at the world’s most-visited art museum, which is reeling from the daylight theft of priceless treasures last month.
From 2026, visitors from outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will have to pay €32 – an extra €10 – from January 14, the museum and staff unions said after the measure was approved at a museum board meeting.
I wonder how many artifacts are stolen from France old colonies
the french stole quite a bit from their colonies but they’re not even close to the british, which looted from a sizable part of the entire world
I doubt there are that many in the Louvre. Probably more in other museums.
Any evidence?
I found this page with many example of stolen artifacts in French museums a lot of them in Louvre just by Napoleonic armies alone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_art_looted_by_Napoleonic_armies
Just a hunch to be honest. But the list you provided does not show artifacts from the french colonies.