Thieves used a truck-mounted furniture elevator and angle grinders to access a second-floor gallery while visitors and museum employees watched them steal some of France’s crown jewels.

More than 25 years before Sunday's heist at the iconic museum, a thief took a 19th-century painting in broad daylight.

The Louvre’s history is crucial to what makes it the most visited museum on Earth, but art theft experts tell the Daily Beast the institution’s age was its biggest vulnerability when it was robbed in broad daylight on Sunday.

Video shows one of the suspected Louvre jewel thieves brazenly cutting through a glass case using a mini chainsaw before making off with the loot during Sunday’s heist at the Paris

Jewels worth millions stolen from world-famous art gallery - The gallery has been forced to close after the chainsaw-wielding thieves made off with jewellery of ‘incalculable value’

Indiana couple Jacob and Holly Barker were eager to visit the Louvre on their recent trip to Paris. In an effort to avoid crowds, the Barkers had booked one of the first ticketed times of the day for Sunday, Oct. 19. Little did they know they'd be present for the shocking, audacious robbery that unfolded that morning in broad daylight.

Brazen robbers stole priceless French crown jewels from the Louvre Museum's Apollo Gallery in broad daylight Saturday in what an expert calls a "targeted heist."

The Louvre museum in Paris was evacuated after a 'gang of highly organised criminals' staged a major robbery at the world famous building, with tourists fleeing in panic