The Louvre's Apollo Gallery, the site of the brazen museum heist last fall, reopened to the public Wednesday morning. The gallery, which once held collections of precious objects and jewels from French royals, is now entirely empty. Lou Benoist/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Louvre Museum removed all items and display cases in the gallery "to restore the painted and sculpted wall decorations to their rightful place," according to a Louvre Museum press release. $102 million in jewels stolen from Louvre Louvre MuseumThe jewels stolen in the heist remain missing, except for Empress Eugenie's crown, which was recovered outside the museum after having been dropped in the thieves' escape. The Apollo Gallery was originally built over 350 years ago as a reception gallery for French King Louis XIV.