So you’ve already seen the original Louvre in Paris, which is great, but you want a different and new experience guaranteed to be on par? Check out the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Located in an exotic destination on an island off Abu Dhabi’s coast, the museum stands beside others within a development overseen by the Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority. The museum is a project created under an agreement between the French government and Abu Dhabi, which will not only lend the new museum the original’s name, but also allow for loans from the original to the new for a period of 10 years.
Originally, the museum was scheduled to open in 2012, then 2014. The museum still isn’t quite complete now, as it has faced multiple delays, but reports say the Louvre Abu Dhabi is almost entirely complete and set to open later this year or early next year. After the construction, 95 percent finished, is complete, the new building’s indoor climate must also be adjusted to create a safe environment for the artwork before pieces are moved in. After the opening, travelers can expect other museums, such as the Zayed National Museum and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to open on the same island development.
So far, the museum’s main gallery will be compacted into one main route through the museum. The route will be arranged chronologically, starting with archaeology and the birth of civilization, before moving to the medieval birth of Islam, then the Classical period and finally the modern world starting in the 1800s. In addition to the artwork, various archaeological artifacts, historical objects, texts and multimedia will be on display to enhance guests’ further understanding of the artwork. Rotating exhibits from famous institutions all over the globe will complement the main gallery.
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