Overview
- The institution announced on November 28 that screenings and certain educational activities are suspended for one month after fresh complaints.
- All seats will be disassembled and repeatedly treated with 180°C dry steam, with detection dogs validating each phase, and carpets will receive the same level of treatment.
- Exhibition spaces, the library and the restaurant remain open to visitors during the suspension.
- Reports trace back to a November 7 event attended by about 400 people, where spectators described visible bedbugs on seats and clothing and later reported bites.
- A spectator’s complaint and photo posted on X prompted inspections that preceded the shutdown, with current coverage noting no evidence of the disinformation seen during Paris’s 2023 bedbug scare.