Instead, it chose Liévin, a 10-minute walk from the Louvre’s mini-museum outpost in the adjacent town of Lens, which opened in 2012. Art at the Louvre Conservation Center, in Lievin, France, Feb 9, 2021. Art at the Louvre Conservation Center, in Lievin, France, Feb 9, 2021. More than 250,000 drawings, prints and manuscripts — too fragile to be exposed to light — will stay in storage in the Paris Louvre, on a high floor safe from flooding. The basement is not the Louvre’s only refuge for unseen artworks.

Source: bd News24 February 13, 2021 06:45 UTC