The Louvre on strike for lack of employees… however there isn’t a scarcity of sources | EUROtoday

The largest museum on this planet was closed on Monday because of a strike. Staff are protesting in opposition to the deterioration of working circumstances: between 2014 and 2023, 193 positions have been lower at reception and surveillance, to the purpose that there’s just one agent left for each 1,000 guests. This strike comes after a darkish sequence on the Louvre, marked in October by a spectacular housebreaking and its loot of €88 million, water infiltration and rooms closed because of structural weak point of the flooring. Everything appears to point that the Louvre lacks sources, and but… The treasury totals 168 million euros and the revenues are a number of, from ticketing (125 million euros in 2024) to patronage via the exploitation of the model or the “Louvre Abu Dhabi” license, to which have to be added 98 million euros in state subsidies, the museum lacks nothing. Where the Louvre fails is within the selection of the usage of its funds. But different monuments haven’t got these wealthy individuals’s issues. Notre-Dame de Paris, reopened for a yr already, on December 8, 2024, was in problem earlier than the hearth of April 2019 however this catastrophe had the benefit of inflicting a wave of generosity and €843 million in donations, of which 700 have been used for the restoration. The relaxation can be used to consolidate the flying buttresses on the east facet which look gloomy. The State might commit €150 million per yr to non secular heritage, however it’s removed from sufficient for the 87 cathedrals and tens of 1000’s of church buildings for which it’s accountable. With greater than 46,000 protected historic monuments, French heritage represents a monetary pit for the State as a lot as it’s a supply of pleasure for France.
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