Louvre-Lens

About

The Louvre-Lens is a public institution for cultural cooperation of an administrative nature founded by the Conseil régional du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, the department of Pas-de-Calais, the community of agglomeration of Lens-Liévin, the city of Lens and the Louvre Museum. This "second Louvre" is located in Lens, Pas-de-Calais. It is an autonomous institution, linked to the Musée du Louvre Paris by a scientific and cultural convention.

The museum is built on the site of the old pit No. 9 of the Lens mines. The new building, under the supervision of the Conseil régional du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, hosts semi-permanent exhibitions representative of all the collections of the Louvre museum, which are regularly renewed.

It also hosts temporary exhibitions at national or international level. The museum is served by TADAO shuttles connecting it to the station pole every 30 minutes. The inauguration, on December 4, 2012, of the Holy Barbe, resulted in a free "open house" operation from 6 p.m.

to midnight. The official opening to the public took place on December 12, 2012. The museum is one of the symbols of the reconversion of the mining basin...