Louvre to Install 100 Surveillance Cameras and Anti-Intrusion Systems

"After the shock, after the emotion, after the assessment, it's time for action,"

"complete protection of the museum's surroundings,"

"a method that had not been imagined at all"

"The extensive modernization that the Louvre underwent in the 1980s is now technically obsolete, with equipment that has been overperforming for 40 years,"

The Louvre will install roughly 100 surveillance cameras and anti-intrusion systems following the crown jewels theft. Anti-intrusion systems will be operational within two weeks and exterior cameras by the end of next year. The equipment aims to prevent intruders from approaching the museum and to ensure complete protection of the museum’s surroundings. More than 20 emergency measures will be implemented across the museum. Robbers used disc cutters to breach display cases, a method not anticipated when cases were replaced in 2019; the cases nonetheless held up. The Louvre New Renaissance plan will modernize infrastructure and security to handle high visitor volumes and replace obsolete 1980s equipment; the museum received more than 8 million visitors this year.

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