[2], The Ministry of Culture and the Louvre Directorate launched a plan, in 2003, to build a Louvre satellite museum in one of the 22 Regions of France. At the western tip, the grassy mounds of the play area are a delight for children. The museum is built on a 20-hectare (49-acre) mining site that closed in the 1960s. La Scène (performance and lecture theatre), Opening times, ticket prices and how to get here. The Ministry of Culture and the Louvre Directorate launched a plan, in 2003, to build a Louvre satellite museum in one of the 22 Regions of France. The facades are in polished aluminum, in which the park is reflected, ensuring continuity between the museum and the surrounding landscape. A royal head thought to represent Hammurabi, King of Babylon (ca. Der Louvre-Lens ist ein Kunstmuseum in der nordfranzösischen Stadt Lens im Département Pas-de-Calais. 1514–1515), The Abduction of Deianira by Giambologna (ca. It emerges gradually as you approach it through the surrounding park. [1] Though the museum maintains close institutional links with the Louvre, it is primarily funded by the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. Skylights above the staircases illuminate the lower level. Es wurde am 4. Created with Sketch. Using extremely simple forms, the architects succeeded in making their building part of the landscape, exploiting the appearance of the façades. In 2004, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, then French Prime Minister, announced Lens as the recipient city. Selected in 2005 from 124 different entries, the design by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Japanese agency SANAA fulfilled many of the project’s scientific and cultural objectives. The structure is made up of five building of steel and glass. The main building consists of a sequence of five volumes – a large square and four rectangles – only the corners of which are joined. French photographer Julien Lanoo has shared with us a first look at the Musée du Louvre’s new sister gallery: Louvre Lens. Dezember 2012 der Öffentlichkeit übergeben. It was a real challenge to design a new building for the Louvre , which represented the Parisian museum without simply imitating it and which fitted the site - a former mine yard - without betraying its character. To the West of the entrance is the temporary exhibition gallery and La Scène, a vast – new generation – auditorium, whose programs are in direct relation with the exhibitions. [11] The square, central building is the main reception area. Their design, prompted by the idea of creating a gentle transition with the surroundings through transparency and openness to the outside, rejects ostentatious gestures in favour of architecture that is accessible and discreet without being mundane. On Feb 7 2013, a woman vandalized a major masterpiece of the museum, Liberty Guiding the People, writing "AE911" on it with a black marker, possibly a reference to a group calling itself "Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth". The design, first conceived as part of an international competition in 2006, was created by the Pritzker Prize laureates of SANAA, in collaboration with New York studio Imrey Culbert, landscape designer Catherine Mosbach and museographer Studio Adrien Gardère. SANAA’s stroke of genius was to make the architectural modules disappear from view by wrapping them alternately in floor-to-ceiling windows and sheets of anodised aluminium with no visible joins. The architecture thus merges into its surroundings in a subtle and respectful way, without overwhelming it.