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On Sunday, October 19, criminals managed to steal eight pieces of extremely valuable jewellery from the Louvre Museum’s Gallery of Apollo, in Paris. The robbery highlights long-standing issues for criminology in the field of cultural heritage, as museum security has to address traditional and emerging threats as well as a range of symbolic visions and criminal dynamics. This means that, when a security breach occurs, the costs are felt on many different levels.
From a security point of view, there are five key ideas that can help us understand what the flaws were in the Louvre, as well as how and why criminals target museums.
1. Physical security is paramount
Although there is no doubt that cybersecurity is a major threat to cultural institutions – with risks ranging from unauthorised access to digitised catalogues to sabotaging surveillance and alarm systems –
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