Louvre December strike adds to post-heist woes: How the museum’s bad year stacks up

A water leak and crumbling infrastructure are just a few of the museum’s other recent concerns. On November 26, a water leak at Paris’ Louvre Museum damaged between 300 and 400 historical books in the Egyptology and scientific documentation section. Then, on December 8, workers at the museum voted to initiate a strike over poor working conditions.