Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Louvre remains closed on Monday as French investigators race against time to catch the thieves - Benoit Tessier/Reuters ...

La Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot is housed in the Hôtel du Breuil-de-St-Germain in Langres, France. (image via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) A small museum in northeastern France reported a ...

Two Renoir paintings stolen from a museum in southern France last month have been found, and six people arrested, local authorities said Friday ...

PARIS (AP) — Two thieves sliced through a fence, climbed through a window and stole four valuable Renoir paintings Tuesday from a small museum on the French Riviera, but abandoned two of the artworks ...

As the U.S. celebrates 250 years of independence, a French museum is exploring how American artists transformed modern art and how ideas crossed the Atlantic to shape it.

The latest theft to strike a European cultural institution was not a painting or a jeweled crown, but something far less obvious: a book cover. As first reported by local French radio station ICI Pays ...

A government audit of 1,218 French museums has revealed that some 80% do not know the full contents of their collections, with many collections facing further serious hazards, Libération reported. The ...

A second French museum was raided by thieves just hours after the brazen $100 million heist at the Louvre. About 2,000 gold and silver coins — some 235 years old — were swiped from the Maison des ...

IT systems used by about 40 French museums, including the Grand Palais, have been targeted by a ransomware attack. The French newspaper Le Parisien revealed on August 5 that the attack was detected by ...

A Look at the Theft of Renoir Paintings From a French Museum and Other High-Profile Heists PARIS (AP) — Thieves hit the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera and made off with four valuable works by the ...