Tips-4-Trips - #Tip74 -- The Louvre in Lens - video Dailymotion

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The Musée du Louvre-Lens, which opened in December 2012, is located in the small mining town of Lens, which, with around 30,000 inhabitants, is situated in the middle of the mining region of Nord-Pas de Calais.  The Galerie du Temps is the centerpiece of the Louvre-Lens. It houses more than 200 masterpieces from the Louvre collections, spectacularly displayed over an area of 3,000 m². Here you can take a unique journey through the history of art, from the invention of writing in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC to the Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century. The installation, which is both chronological and multidisciplinary, creates a dialogue between epochs, techniques and civilizations.

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00:00The city is located at the southern end of a coal deposit that stretches from the Ruhr

00:21region through Saarland and Belgium to the north of France.

00:25The city has the same fate as the regions to the north of it.

00:29The economic basis provided by mining and the steel industry no longer exists and the

00:33social situation of the population is becoming difficult.

00:37Culture is stepping into this gap.

00:39In December 2012, the first branch of the Louvre outside Paris opens its doors.

00:45In the north, out of all places, against the resistance of so many sceptics.

00:59I am delighted to bring the collections of the Louvre Museum, which are behind me,

01:05the collections closest to the inhabitants.

01:08This Louvre-Lens Museum is a Louvre in a different way.

01:12It is a new, innovative way, closest to the expectations of visitors, to show,

01:20to present, to share the collections of the Louvre, but also temporary exhibitions.

01:28Here at the Galerie du Temps, 250 artifacts from the 200-year-old institution of Paris are on display.

01:35Each year, one-third of the works are replaced and rearranged, still chronologically,

01:40but arranged by theme so that the pieces enter into a dialogue.

01:44So I discover the Louvre pleasantly different, visually without barriers through the large glass surfaces,

02:02step unhindered in front of the works of art of international rank and admire their beauty and perfect form.

02:14Finally, I take a look at the model of the coal mine where today this museum resides.

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Tips-4-Trips - #Tip74 -- The Louvre in Lens

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