And so, the Louvre-Lens was born, with temporary exhibition galleries and its emblematic Galerie du Temps (Gallery of Time), ...

The aims: to bring the museum up to modern standards in a time of international mass tourism, heightened security requirements ... of a new "grand entrance" to the Louvre, located on its eastern ...

The infant Louvre in Lens was designed by the award-winning Japanese architectural firm SANAA with a long, low entrance building lined in glass, underground display areas where visitors can see ...

The Louvre-Lens site is located on 20 hectares of wasteland ... The buildings located to the East of the entrance - the Grande Galerie and the Glass Pavilion - primarily house the Louvre’s ...

“The Louvre did not explain why we needed to evacuate, which was a good thing because the exiting crowd was blocked at the main entrance”. France has been placed under the maximum security ...

The Louvre-Lens takes an innovative approach that allows visitors to walk freely around the works. Travel Agent attended the press preview last month, one day before French President Francois ...

CBS Radio News correspondent Elaine Cobbe says the assailant was shot and wounded after pulling a machete on the soldiers guarding the entrance ... security measures taken at the Carrousel du ...

The "Louvre-Lens" project – housed in a futuristic glass and aluminum complex. Proponents say the complex will offer culture to the less cultivated provinces and give residents a unique ...

The concept behind an offshoot of the Louvre may have followed in the footsteps of the Tate and the Centre Pompidou, but the final product is altogether different, writes Joseph Rykwert I had not ...

While crowds of people can be seen around the Louvre's main entrance, there is no one at ... took her 'about five minutes' to get through the security and access the museum. ' ...