The Louvre branch in Lens by SANAA is completed
Lens (France) - In the northern French city of Lens, President François Hollande today inaugurated the branch of the Paris Louvre Museum. It will open to the public on December 12. The Louvre-Lens Museum will primarily offer masterpieces in the form of paintings and sculptures loaned from Paris.
The modern cultural facility made of glass and aluminum consists of two main galleries. One will host temporary exhibitions, the first of which focuses on Renaissance art.
The second gallery is the core of the museum and is dedicated to approximately 200 loaned artworks from the Louvre. It allows for comparisons between works created around the same time but in different parts of the world. It offers a cross-section of creations from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the 19th century. For example, there are works by painters Eugène Delacroix and Raphael. The Louvre will continuously refresh the local exhibition by exchanging some of the artworks.
Authorities chose the city of Lens, with its 35,000 residents, for the first similar branch of the Louvre in order to support the development of this mining area, which is still recovering from the closure of local mines. It takes an hour by TGV high-speed train from Lens to Paris. It is expected that the Lens-Louvre museum will attract up to 700,000 visitors annually.
The new museum building was designed by the Japanese architectural firm Sanaa, whose founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa won the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2010.
The modern cultural facility made of glass and aluminum consists of two main galleries. One will host temporary exhibitions, the first of which focuses on Renaissance art.
The second gallery is the core of the museum and is dedicated to approximately 200 loaned artworks from the Louvre. It allows for comparisons between works created around the same time but in different parts of the world. It offers a cross-section of creations from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the 19th century. For example, there are works by painters Eugène Delacroix and Raphael. The Louvre will continuously refresh the local exhibition by exchanging some of the artworks.
Authorities chose the city of Lens, with its 35,000 residents, for the first similar branch of the Louvre in order to support the development of this mining area, which is still recovering from the closure of local mines. It takes an hour by TGV high-speed train from Lens to Paris. It is expected that the Lens-Louvre museum will attract up to 700,000 visitors annually.
The new museum building was designed by the Japanese architectural firm Sanaa, whose founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa won the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2010.
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