Louvre-Lens
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The Louvre-Lens is an art museum in the northern French city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department . It was opened on December 4, 2012 by the French President François Hollande and opened to the public on December 12, 2012. Entry in the first year was free.
The museum shows works of art from all departments of the Paris Louvre from the 3rd millennium BC. Chr. To 1850.
building
The museum is located on the abandoned site of colliery No. 9 , which mined hard coal from 1886 to 1980. The site is 20 hectares and is about two kilometers west of the city center. The construction costs are given at 150 million euros, of which 60 percent will be borne by the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region . There are five parts of the building, including the 68 by 55 meter entrance hall in the center. To the left of this there is a building for special exhibitions and a 300-person auditorium, to the right of which is a 130-meter-long main exhibition building and another building for the permanent exhibition, both with skylights .
The building was designed by architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryūe Nishizawa from SANAA architects. The competition started in 2005; 120 architects from all over the world took part. Structural engineers were Bollinger and Grohmann .
A landscape garden by Catherine Mosbach will frame the building. It is hoped that the house, similar to the Center Pompidou-Metz or the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, will contribute to the tourist revitalization of the structurally weak region of the former northern French coal mining area. This has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012 . In the first three months the museum was visited by around 300,000 people.
Curatorial concept
The permanent exhibition is located in the so-called Grande Galerie, in which the Galerie du Temps has been set up for a period of five years since 2012 with loans from the Louvre. Here works of art of every technique and every cultural context are shown in one room according to their chronology on 3000 m². Objects from 5000 years of cultural history are represented. None of the works of art are exhibited on the side walls, rather the works are distributed in relative proximity in the room. Objects are exchanged annually. As the director Henri Loyrette explained in an interview, it is based on the idea of the universal museum and its synthesis.
Movie
- Louvre-Lens - The Gallery of Time. Documentary, France, 2012, 52 min., Written and directed: Michaël Gaumnitz, production: arte France, AMIP, Musée du Louvre, German first broadcast: December 16, 2012 on arte.
Web links
- Louvre-Lens website (French, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Second Louvre in Lens: Well-known works of art in a battered area. In: Focus Online . December 4, 2012, accessed December 4, 2012 .
- ^ Announcement on the website of the French tourism organization (German) ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 14, 2012
- ↑ Stefan Simons: A Louvre for the backwoodsmen. In: Spiegel online from November 20, 2012.
- ^ Rowan Moore: Louvre-Lens - review. In: The Guardian of November 4, 2012, accessed December 20, 2012
- ↑ Louvre Museum: There is no upturn. Retrieved on August 18, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Marion Coquet: Louvre-Lens: "Notre but est de faire decouvrir aux visiteurs ce qu'ils ne connaissent pas." , Lepoint.fr of March 12, 2013, accessed on March 12, 2013 (French)
- ↑ La Galerie du temps - Louvre-Lens . In: Louvre-Lens . ( louvrelens.fr [accessed August 18, 2018]).
- ^ "Lens sera une synthèse du Louvre" . In: FIGARO . April 16, 2012 ( lefigaro.fr [accessed August 18, 2018]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 50 ″ N , 2 ° 48 ′ 12 ″ E