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A new, safe home for Louvre’s unseen treasures. An ambitious move to shift 250K artworks to a storage site 120 miles away
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A new, safe home for Louvre’s unseen treasures. An ambitious move to shift 250K artworks to a storage site 120 miles awayBy
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The five-year project will see the transfer of works of art to an ultramodern storage site in northern France.
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LIÉVIN, FRANCE: It is the most ambitious move in the history of the Louvre a five-year project to transfer 250,000 works of art to an ultramodern storage site 120 miles away in northern France.
New, safe home for the Louvre s unseen treasures and artefacts
published : 17 Feb 2021 at 10:42 A preparatory study by 16th-century Italian artist Giulio Romano in the Louvre. (Photo: Dmitry Kostyukov/NYT)
PARIS: It is the most ambitious move in the history of the Louvre a five-year project to transfer a quarter of a million artworks to an ultramodern storage site 193km away in northern France.
For more than 16 months, a stream of trucks has quietly hauled treasures from the museum s central Paris basement, and other sites, to the Louvre Conservation Center, a fortress of culture set up in the town of Liévin, near Lens.