By most accounts, management of the Louvre Museum is chaotic and antiquated. But that has recently begun to change, as some long-needed reforms take hold. “It’s not that we are free to do any old thing. We have now reached the right balance between exercising autonomy and complying with national policies. Still, from a strictly management point of view, this is one of the most radical changes at the Louvre since it was founded as the Muséum Central des Arts by France’s first revolutionary regime in 1793. It will now be run as a museum, not as a government department.”