https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Staff at the Louvre voted for another day of strike action on Monday, union representatives told AFP in Paris, threatening fresh disruption at the world's most-visited museum. https://www.thelocal.fr/20260105/louvre-staff-vote-for-strike-again-unions Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:51:03 +0100 louvre-staff-vote-for-strike-again-unions Later this year, the Louvre in Paris will host an exhibition of masterpieces by the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci to mark his death 500 years ago in France. But the work that in recent months has been the intense focus of scrutiny by the media and da Vinci specialists, may not be on show. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190428/mystery-of-salvator-mundi-the-worlds-most-costly-painting Sun, 28 Apr 2019 13:21:58 +0200 mystery-of-salvator-mundi-the-worlds-most-costly-painting French artist JR on Friday put the final touches to a huge collage in the courtyard of the Louvre, his latest eye-popping-project unveiled to mark the 30th birthday of the Louvre's glass pyramid. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190330/french-artist-jr-promises-latest-work-will-reveal-louvre-pyramids-secret Sat, 30 Mar 2019 16:28:53 +0100 french-artist-jr-promises-latest-work-will-reveal-louvre-pyramids-secret France's Cite de Vin museum will toast Georgia's 9,000-year history as the global birthplace of wine-making in a new exhibition from Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170729/french-museum-raises-a-glass-to-cradle-of-wine-making-georgia Sat, 29 Jul 2017 18:44:10 +0200 french-museum-raises-a-glass-to-cradle-of-wine-making-georgia As global warming reshapes the Arctic and Antarctic, a new museum built by the son of a renowned French explorer aims to show "the beauty of polar landscapes" and illustrate the consequences of climate change. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170311/worlds-first-museum-of-polar-lands-opens-in-france Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:17:33 +0100 worlds-first-museum-of-polar-lands-opens-in-france One day before he is to be officially inaugurated as the next US president Donald Trump's waxwork version was unveiled in Paris on Thursday, alongside Russian leader Vladimir Putin. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170119/donald-trump-unveiled-in-paris-alongside-vladimir-putin Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:42:26 +0100 donald-trump-unveiled-in-paris-alongside-vladimir-putin A French employee at the Orleans museum of natural history was found guilty and handed a three-month suspended sentence for stealing hundreds of stones and fossils dating back to the Neolithic era and selling them on eBay. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161216/french-museum-worker-sold-stolen-fossils-on-ebay Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:24:01 +0100 french-museum-worker-sold-stolen-fossils-on-ebay French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday said the Louvre could house threatened treasures from Iraq, Syria and other war-torn countries at a secure site in northern France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161101/louvre-could-house-treasures-from-iraq-and-syria-says-hollande Tue, 01 Nov 2016 18:07:00 +0100 louvre-could-house-treasures-from-iraq-and-syria-says-hollande Fancy buying a World War II tank? Then you need to go to a museum in Normandy, France, which is closing its doors and selling off its entire collection. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160822/who-wants-to-buy-a-tank-asks-french-museum Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:56:49 +0200 who-wants-to-buy-a-tank-asks-french-museum Street artist JR has apparently made the famed pyramid vanish from the top of the Louvre museum in Paris. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160525/street-artists-makes-the-louvre-pyramid-disappear Wed, 25 May 2016 11:26:51 +0200 street-artists-makes-the-louvre-pyramid-disappear Lyon resident Ahmed Ziani, who has been buying and selling art after losing his job as a mechanic, may have stumbled across a long-lost masterpiece by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160506/french-mechanic-finds-long-lost-renoir-online-for-just-700 Fri, 06 May 2016 12:38:50 +0200 french-mechanic-finds-long-lost-renoir-online-for-just-700 One of the world's biggest private art collections is to be housed in a new Paris museum within a stone's throw of the Louvre, a French billionaire said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160427/paris-to-get-a-new-art-museum-housing-one-of-the-worlds-top-collections-culture-france-pinault-damien-hirst-pompidou-louvre Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:29:08 +0200 paris-to-get-a-new-art-museum-housing-one-of-the-worlds-top-collections-culture-france-pinault-damien-hirst-pompidou-louvre A private art gallery which shook up the Paris museum scene with a series of major hit shows shut its doors Monday after a dramatic fall in visitor numbers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160215/paris-pinacotheque-gallery-closes-its-doors Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:13:15 +0100 paris-pinacotheque-gallery-closes-its-doors France has been top of travellers’ bucket lists for centuries, and there's never really a bad time to visit. But there's a lot going on here in 2016, from sport to art, so here's our list of what not to miss in France next year. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151229/why-you-should-visit-france-in-2016 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:56:59 +0100 why-you-should-visit-france-in-2016 It’s taken six years and nearly €100 million but one of Paris’s great museums, the Museum of Mankind is finally about to reopen to an expectant public. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151015/museum-of-man-set-to-reopen-in-paris Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:56:24 +0200 museum-of-man-set-to-reopen-in-paris Better known for his tough guy roles in the "Rocky" and "Rambo" films, Sylvester Stallone was in southern France this weekend for the opening of a retrospective of his artwork. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150518/stallone-france-artwork-nice Mon, 18 May 2015 10:25:39 +0200 stallone-france-artwork-nice Brazen burglars are on the run after they got away with 15 artefacts - including a king's crown - from Fontainebleau palace near Paris on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150302/fontainebleu-paris-museum-robbery-napoleon Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:41:00 +0100 fontainebleu-paris-museum-robbery-napoleon A Frenchman was ordered into detention on Friday as investigators probed his ties to Mehdi Nemmouche, a compatriot charged with killing four people at Brussels' Jewish Museum in May. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141213/frenchman-probed-over-links-to-museum-deaths Sat, 13 Dec 2014 12:01:00 +0100 frenchman-probed-over-links-to-museum-deaths Paris's brand new exhibition on the legendary Kama Sutra takes visitors beyond its risqué reputation and shows the text is more about pleasure than sex. Our colleagues at Parisian News TV gives you an inside look. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141003/kama-sutra-paris-exhibition Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:51:00 +0200 kama-sutra-paris-exhibition Once a year France opens the doors on tonnes of fascinating, bizarre and important places that are generally closed to the public. Here are 10 things not to miss this weekend for ‘Heritage days’. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140918/ten-must-see-sites-for-frances-heritage-days Thu, 18 Sep 2014 18:03:00 +0200 ten-must-see-sites-for-frances-heritage-days