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Louvre-Lens
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The Louvre-Lens is an art museum located in Lens, France, approximately 200 kilometers north of Paris. It displays objects from the collections of the Musée du Louvre that are lent to the gallery on a medium- or long-term basis. The Louvre-Lens annex is part of an effort to provide access to French cultural institutions for people who live outside of Paris. Though the museum maintains close institutional links with the Louvre, it is primarily funded by the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.

Key facts

Museum.name
Louvre-Lens
Museum.pushpin_map
France
Museum.location
99 Rue Paul Bert62300 Lens, France
Museum.type
Art museum, Design/Textile Museum, Historic site
Museum.visitors
700,000 the first year, 450 000 in 2017
Museum.architect
SANAA Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo + Imrey Culbert, New York
Museum.director
Xavier Dectot
Museum.curator
Xavier Dectot
Museum.publictransit
Bus shuttle from gare de Lens

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
art museum
Named after
Lens
Country
France
Located in
Lens
Official website
www.louvrelens.fr
Image
0 La Liberté guidant le peuple - Eugène Delacroix (1).JPG
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visitors per year
482759
Commons category
Louvre-Lens
inception
2010-00-00
architect
Kazuyo Sejima
Commons Institution page
Louvre-Lens
date of official opening
2012-12-04
street address
Carreau de la fosse 9 delle Miniere di Lens
social media followers
27854
sponsor
AG2R La Mondiale
distributed by
Google Play
number of viewers/listeners
1035560
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Museum
  • Architecture
  • Temporary exhibits
  • Inauguration, opening and visitors
  • Gallery
  • References
  • External links

The Louvre-Lens is an art museum located in Lens, France, approximately 200 kilometers north of Paris. It displays objects from the collections of the Musée du Louvre that are lent to the gallery on a medium- or long-term basis. The Louvre-Lens annex is part of an effort to provide access to French cultural institutions for people who live outside of Paris. Though the museum maintains close institutional links with the Louvre, it is primarily funded by the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.

==History== Because of criticism that French art and culture is overly concentrated in Paris, the Ministry of Culture and the Louvre Directorate launched a plan, in 2003, to build a Louvre satellite museum in one of the 22 Regions of France. Only the Nord-Pas-de-Calais applied for the museum and proposed six cities: Lille, Lens, Valenciennes, Calais, Béthune and Boulogne-sur-Mer. In 2004, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, then French Prime Minister, announced Lens as the recipient city.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Louvre-Lens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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