Following the record-breaking torrential rainfall in Paris, the city declared a state of emergency. The floods that resulted from the rise of the Seine river caused multiple damage in the capital of France. Some of the buildings affected by the rain include cultural institutions like the Musée du Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay, places that had to implement evacuation plans in order to save the works in danger and move them to higher floors. Curators at the Louvre, the largest museum in the world and the most visited in Europe, began the contingency plans to move 250,000 works of art. The last time that the Louvre had to implement an emergency evacuation plan to relocate its works of art was in 1940 during the Nazi invasion of France. Back then, the museum relocated the pieces to secure locations across France. The two institutions reopened during the second week of June, after having closed their doors to the public because of the rain.