By Qin 
After much debate, the idea was ultimately abandoned due to the great expense, and twenty years later, the gathering was purchased by Tsaritsa Catherine the Great of Russia and housed within the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. But after the warfare, 61,233 articles of greater than 150,000 seized artworks returned to France and were assigned to the Office des Biens Privés. Some 10% to 35% of the pieces are believed to come from Jewish spoliations and until the identification of their rightful house owners, which declined on the end of the 1960s, they are registered indefinitely on separate inventories from the museum’s collections. In 2023, the Louvre Museum in Paris applied Art Galery a major change in its pricing coverage, marking the first price increase since 2017. The determination to lift ticket costs by 30% is part of a broader strategy aimed at supporting free entry in the course of the Olympics and effectively managing the anticipated crowd. Director Laurence des Cars has introduced measures to regulate attendance, together with capping day by day guests at 30,000 and planning a new entrance to alleviate congestion.
