The Louvre Museum's Apollo Gallery re-opens to the Public, Nine Months after Jewel Heist
Closed since the theft of October 19, 2025, the Apollo Gallery reopens to the public today, July 22, but no jewels are on display.
The collections and precious objects once housed here have been removed to restore the painted and sculpted wall decorations to their rightful place. The gallery has regained its original ceremonial purpose, conceived in the 17th century as a work of art in its own right. It also provides a space for strolling, connecting the Apollo Rotunda to the Salon Carré and opening onto the Grande Galerie.
A royal gallery decorated by French artists (including Le Brun, Girardon, Lagrenée, and Delacroix), the Galerie d'Apollon served as the model for the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
Originally designed as a reception gallery for Louis XIV, it features extraordinary ornamentation. Measuring 61.34 meters long with a ceiling height of 15 meters (covering a total area of 600 square meters), it was built over 350 years ago, though its decorations were enriched over more than two centuries. Today, it remains one of the most iconic spaces in the Louvre, famed for its lavish stucco, paintings, and Gobelins tapestries commissioned specifically for the space by Duban and installed in 1852.