Tag: Louvre
The Louvre welcomes rare icons exfiltrated from a Ukrainian museum
16 Byzantine icons exfiltrated from the Khanenko Museum in kyiv arrived in Paris last month. Five of them are shown to the public from this Wednesday in a specially equipped…
Exhibition: “Splendours of the Oases of Uzbekistan”, at the Louvre Museum
/ Podcasts / Cultural meeting Two presidents for an exceptional exhibition. “Splendours of the Oasis of Uzbekistan”, at the Louvre Museum in Paris, was inaugurated last month by the French…
Louvre, Grévin… How French museums protect themselves from ecological vandalism
Mona Lisa’s smile has to be earned. On this All Saints’ Monday, dozens of visitors throng the queue set up in the Salle des Etats of the Louvre Museum, opposite…
One of the oldest manuscripts of the Qur’an, the “Langar Mushaf on the Floor” will be exhibited at the Louvre Museum.
BAHTİYAR ABDÜLKERİMOV – The copy of the Holy Quran, known as the “Katta Langar Musfah” in Uzbekistan and one of the oldest and unique manuscripts of the Turkish-Islamic world, will…
Energy saving decision in France! Louvre Museum pyramid lights were also turned off early
In order to make the transition to energy saving effective in the country and to create widespread awareness on this issue, decisions were taken to turn off the lights of…
Exhibition: the archaeological site of Byblos honored at the Louvre
It is in Byblos, one of the most important and most visited sites in Lebanon, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, that new archaeological discoveries have just…
Ieoh Ming Pei, the creator of the Louvre pyramid
A mischievous smile and the glance luminous, Ieoh Ming Pei is known in France for having imagined the famous Pyramid of the Louvre. But the career of thearchitect Chinese American…
Breastfeeding in public: a Louvre agent refuses a mother to breastfeed
After two hours of visiting the Louvre, Jasmine sits on a bench in the Richelieu gallery to breastfeed her five-and-a-half-month-old daughter. But an agent of the Parisian museum clarifies to…
The former head of the Louvre is charged with money laundering
Jean-Luc Martinez was charged on Wednesday in Paris with involvement in “organized fraud” and money laundering. Two of Martinez’s former colleagues in the Louvre’s department for Egyptian objects were arrested…
a former president of the Louvre indicted for money laundering
A former president and director of the Louvre Museum, Jean-Luc Martinez, was indicted this Wednesday, May 25 in Paris for “ money laundering and complicity in organized fraud in an…