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The Abu Dhabi Louvre
Plans for 'Desert Louvre' Provoke Outrage in France
The Abu Dhabi Louvre will be housed in a French-designed, domed building resembling a giant flying saucer -- or a mushroom, depending on one's perspective.
The complex, scheduled to be completed in five years, will include the world's largest Guggenheim Museum, 29 luxury hotels and three marinas with berths for 10,000 yachts. Sheik Sultan bin Tahnoon al-Nahyan, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, said the emirate's ambition is to "reach an arts and architectural level never before achieved."
When word of the pending Middle Eastern Louvre deal leaked several months ago, French opponents circulated a petition on the Internet under the headline "Our museums are not for sale!" As of last week, 4,700 Curators, Art Historians, Archaeologists and Art Enthusiasts had signed.
"We're not selling the French legacy and heritage," French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres insisted during the signing ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. "We're proud that Abu Dhabi wants to bring the Louvre here. We're not here to transform culture into a consumer product."
The next day, the Louvre's Director, Henri Loyrette, assured reporters in Paris that the Louvre's most famous works, such as the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo, which helped attract 8.35 million visitors to the museum last year, would "never be loaned out."
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The Abu Dhabi Louvre will be housed in a French-designed, domed building resembling a giant flying saucer -- or a mushroom, depending on one's perspective.
The complex, scheduled to be completed in five years, will include the world's largest Guggenheim Museum, 29 luxury hotels and three marinas with berths for 10,000 yachts. Sheik Sultan bin Tahnoon al-Nahyan, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, said the emirate's ambition is to "reach an arts and architectural level never before achieved."
When word of the pending Middle Eastern Louvre deal leaked several months ago, French opponents circulated a petition on the Internet under the headline "Our museums are not for sale!" As of last week, 4,700 Curators, Art Historians, Archaeologists and Art Enthusiasts had signed.
"We're not selling the French legacy and heritage," French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres insisted during the signing ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. "We're proud that Abu Dhabi wants to bring the Louvre here. We're not here to transform culture into a consumer product."
The next day, the Louvre's Director, Henri Loyrette, assured reporters in Paris that the Louvre's most famous works, such as the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo, which helped attract 8.35 million visitors to the museum last year, would "never be loaned out."
www.islamicity.com