The Louvre, arguably the word’s most famous art museum, tomorrow will open its first sister museum, the Louvre-Lens. Louvre branch opens in former coal town of Lens: Travel Weekly Toggle navigation ...

Lens, fewer than 50 miles from the Channel tunnel in north-east France, is to be home to an "overspill" branch of the celebrated Louvre museum in Paris.

Louvre-Lens officials are optimistic about restoring the painting, which was left with an approximately 30 cm mark on its bottom-right corner. "The integrity of the work has not been affected, ...

Entry to Louvre Lens (www. louvrelens.fr 00 33 321 186 262) is free. Castel Victoria hotel, Le Touquet, (hotelle touquetparisplage.com 0033 321 900 100) has double rooms from €85.

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Art through a Lens: Louvre opens museum branch in run-down French mining town. By TRAVELMAIL REPORTER . Published: 06:44 EDT, 6 December 2012 | Updated: 06:44 EDT, 6 December 2012 ...