Louis Vuitton Foundation
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art museum and cultural center
Key facts
- Established
- 20 October 2014 ; 11 years ago ( 2014-10-20 )
- Location
- 8 Avenue du Mahatma-Gandhi, 16th arrondissement of Paris , France
- Visitors
- 1,550,000 (2023)
- Architect
- Frank Gehry
- Owner
- LVMH
- Website
- fondationlouisvuitton .fr
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- art museum
- Named after
- Louis Vuitton
- Country
- France
- Located in
- 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Movement
- deconstructivism
- Location
- 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Official website
- www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr
- Image
- Fondation Louis Vuitton 5.jpg
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- native label
- Fondation Louis-Vuitton
- ground level 360 degree view URL
- 360stories.com/paris/story/louis-vuitton-foundation
- Commons category
- Fondation Louis Vuitton
- inception
- 2014-00-00
- architect
- Frank Gehry
- date of official opening
- 2014-10-00
- postal code
- 75116
- public transport stop
- Les Sablons
- social media followers
- 21800
- visitors per year
- 708924
- phone number
- +33-1-40699600
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- street address
- 8, Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi Bois de Boulogne, 75116 Paris
- P12674
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Encyclopedic overview
The Louis Vuitton Foundation (French: Fondation d'entreprise Louis-Vuitton), previously Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation (Fondation Louis-Vuitton pour la création), is a French art museum and cultural center sponsored by the group LVMH and its subsidiaries. It is run as a legally separate, nonprofit entity as part of LVMH's promotion of art and culture. The art museum opened on October 20, 2014, in the presence of President François Hollande. The Deconstructivist building was designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, with groundwork starting in 2006. It is adjacent to the Jardin d'Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, bordering on Neuilly-sur-Seine. More than 1.4 million people visited the Louis Vuitton Foundation in 2017.
The cost of the museum, initially projected to be €100 million, was revealed in 2017 to have been nearly eight times that sum. A November 2018 report of the Court of Audit indicated that from 2007 to 2014, building construction constituted the main activity of the Foundation, and that the LVMH group received €518 million of tax breaks during that time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Louis Vuitton Foundation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.