Annabelle Ténèze, director of the Louvre-Lens, accompanied by Laurence des Cars, President and CEO of the Louvre Museum, François Decoster, Vice-President in charge of culture, heritage, regional languages and international relations of the Hauts-de-France region, Sylvain Robert, mayor of Lens and president of the Agglomeration Community of Lens-Liévin, Gabriel Hollander, President of Crédit Agricole Mutuel Nord de France, and Hilaire Multon, Regional Director of Cultural Affairs of Hauts-de-France, welcomed the press at the Louvre-Lens Museum on Tuesday 23 January.
The Gallery of Renewed Time
After more than 250 rotations in 11 years, gradually make the Gallery of time will be completely redesigned, works that are presented, up to its museography. As announced by Laurence des Cars, President and CEO of the Louvre, «True to its founding principles, the new Galerie du temps opens up to new perspectives by placing innovation at its heart». By favoring the freedom of wandering, the exhibition in its new version will be composed of a river of time, curved and moving connecting the works arranged in a chronological order between them.
Among the 200 new works or objects from the Louvre which will join Lens, we can name «The Four Seasons», a series of paintings painted in the 16th century by the Milanese Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the «Portrait of Luis María de Cistué y Martínez» of Francisco Goya, but also many pieces from the Department of Oriental Antiquities, the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, and the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities.
"Revolutionary in its writing, the Gallery of Time models another way of acting for cultural democratization: gratuitousness allows everyone to enter without calculation or ticket, the participation of the public is activated perpetually, the history of art is shared with intelligence. Neither quite the same nor quite another, the new Gallery of Time will offer tomorrow, to all generations, a sensitive, intelligible, initiatory journey in the history of art and in civilizations, unparalleled in the world.”
Hilaire Multon, Regional Director of Cultural Affairs of Hauts-de-France
The free wing of the Louvre-Lens, will close on September 25 and reopen in December 2024. The museum will remain open and accessible in particular to discover the temporary exhibition «Exils» (provisional title).
The support of the State
The State supports the project of the new Galerie du temps up to €950,000, on par with the Hauts-de-France region.
“In 2024, with the strong support of the State, the Gallery of Time will regenerate: it will be for the next generation a space to understand the world, but also a symbol by the proof, of what the cultural democratization in France offers most beautiful.”
Jacques Billant, Prefect of Pas-de-Calais, Interim Prefect of the Hauts-de-France Region
The Louvre-Lens is also a major and symbolic component of theCommitment to the renewal of the Mining Basin (ERBM) signed in 2017 by the Prime Minister and partners.
In this priority area, this programme aims to support and support the metamorphosis of the mining basin on several strategic axes. Initiated by an inter-ministerial delegation, the partnership has been run daily since 2022 by a four-party committee composed of the State, the Region and the two Departments of Pas-de-Calais and Nord.
Since its inauguration on 4 December 2012, the Louvre-Lens has actively participated in change the lives of the inhabitants and contribute to the change of image of the territory.
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