2013年6月29日 星期六

Louvre-Lens



Louvre-Lens
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House of project
Louvre-Lens is located in France
Location within France
Established 2012
Location 99 Rue Paul Bert
62300 Lens, France
Coordinates 50.43068889°N 2.803302778°E
Type Art museum, Design/Textile Museum, Historic site
Visitors 450000 to 500000 expected
700000 the first year
Director Xavier Dectot
Curator Xavier Dectot
Public transit access Bus shuttle from gare de Lens
Website www.louvrelens.fr
The Louvre-Lens is an art museum located in the industrial city of Lens, in Northern France. It displays objects from the collections of the Musée du Louvre that are lent to the gallery on a medium or long term basis.
Though the museum maintains close institutional links with the Louvre, it is primarily funded by the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.[1]

Contents

Origin and Building

In 2003, based on the universality of Le Louvre and on the thinking that art must be also spread outside of Paris, the Ministry of Culture and the Louvre Directorate launched a call to the 22 Regions in order to implant an antenna within their territory. Only the Nord pas de Calais applied and proposed six cities: Lille, Lens, Valenciennes, Calais, Béthune and Boulogne-sur-Mer. After a harsh competition and lot of reflexion, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French Prime Minister of the time, officially announced during a visit in Lens that the city had been chosen to receive the project which will be settled in few yards away of the Félix-Bollaert stadium, on the 9-9 bis trench. This location, which was previously a coal mine, was given back to Nature since it was closed in the beginning of the 80's.
After the city chosen, the French government launched an worldwide bid to find the company which will be in charge of the conception of the € 82 millions art Museum. Finally, the Japanese Architect firm SANAA was awarded of the 10 years contract in collaboration with the New York City specialized in Museum construction cabinet Imrey Culbert Architect and the French Landscaping architect Catherine Mosbach. Eiffage has been chosen to build the museum.

The Museum

Instead of bulding the museum in stories, the Japanese architects chose to build in length because of the modern style and also because the landscape was more fitting the concept. In consequence, the museum is looking like stretching towards the landscape in order to provoke the admiration of the visitors. The museum is accessible by the ways implanted throughout the arbor park surrounding the museum. The museum itself is composed of three buildings linked to each other: the Hall in the center, the Grand Gallery on the left and the Temporary Gallery on the right

The Hall

The centering building is occupied by the Hall with 4 entrances (North, East, South and West). In the Hall, the visitors can find a shop store, a Ressource Center allowing the visitors to extend their knowledges and connect to their personal space to share their experiences, a Picnic area, a cafeteria, a ticket booth as well as a multimedia guide rental. This is also by the hall that the visitors can access the exhibits rooms.[2]

The Grand Gallery

The Grand Gallery or Time Galleryis the main exhibit space of the museum. It's 120 m long and has a surface of 3,000 m². The space is divided into two parts: the Gallery and an extra exhibit called the Glass Pavillion. These two spaces are dedicated to the permanent exhibition. Instead of beeing organized alphabetically, the art pieces are organized chronologically ( Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern Age). This is one of the particularities of the museum. Each Year, some arts pieces returns to the Original museum in Paris and are replaced by anothers one still from The Louvre.[3]

The Temporary Exhibit Gallery

This exhibit is dedicated to the temporary exhibitions which lasts 3 months and are not accessed for free. It's 90 m long and has a surface of 1800 m². The first exhibition was about Renaissance and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the second one is dedicated to Rubens.[4]

Reserves and Backstage

The Museum, in order to show that a museum is a living place, is also equipped with a fully digital space dedicating to explain what the visitors can't usually see: The Backstage. In there, enclosed to the reserves, the visitors can watch employees testimonies about how a piece is processed before being shown to the public as well as the unknown stories about some masterpieces of the museums by using touch screens. On the other side of the window, the visitors can admire the masterpieces stored in the Reserves as well as the ones which are actually restaured by the staff.[5]

Inauguration, Opening and Frequentation

On Dec 4, 2012, 8 years after Jean-Pierre Raffarin chose Lens to build the new museum, President François Hollande, alongside the First Lady Valérie Trierweiler, the Ministry of Culture Aurélie Filippetti, The director of Le Louvre Henri Loyrette, The Mayor of Lens Guy Delcourt, the previous Prime Ministers Lionel Jospin and Pierre Mauroy officially inaugurates the Louvre-Lens.[6]
The week-end later, the museum welcomes its first visitors with a huge success: 3 weeks after the opening, the museum welcomes its 100,000th client.[7] On May 2013, during Long Night of Museums 2013, 500,000 visitors have admired the Louvre-Lens Museum masterpieces.[8]
Nevertheless, some incidents already happened. On Feb 7 2013, a deranged woman vandalized the main masterpiece of the Museum: Liberty Guiding the People inscribing AE911 with a black Marker.[9]

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