Lalique Museum: reopening on November 28 after a burglary

The Lalique museum in Wingen-sur-Moder (Bas-Rhin), where 27 pieces of jewelry, with a total value of more than 4.5 million euros, were stolen at the beginning of July, will reopen on November 28 after security work, he announced Thursday, October 1.

“We can't wait to be able to welcome our visitors back, but we first had to work on repairing and securing the place to be able to prepare for a peaceful reopening,” commented Véronique Brumm Schaich, the director of this establishment dedicated to the Art Nouveau and Art Deco jeweler-glassmaker René Lalique (1860-1945), in a press release.

At dawn on July 5, three hooded individuals broke through an emergency exit then a fire door, before breaking six display cases containing jewelry, in the main exhibition room of the museum. The burglary lasted only a few minutes. Since then, the museum, located about 60 km northwest of Strasbourg, has kept its doors closed.

At the beginning of August, he opened an online fundraiser in order to “finance additional work to secure the site, which is not covered by insurance”. This prize pool, still open, made it possible to raise nearly 7,300 euros on Thursday. “The messages of solidarity and the various donations (...) help us and we would like to sincerely thank all the people and companies who give us their support,” commented the director.