{"id":45220,"date":"2022-01-20T01:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T01:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mircorp.com\/?p=45220"},"modified":"2022-01-28T21:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T21:31:35","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-miss-the-louvre-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mircorp.com\/why-you-shouldnt-miss-the-louvre-in-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Shouldn\u2019t Miss The Louvre in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Louvre in Abu Dhabi. Photo credit: Michel Behar<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Louvre in Abu Dhabi<\/strong> is the largest and most visited museum in the Arab world. After an agreement was signed with the Louvre in 2007, the museum opened 10 years later as a sister museum to the Louvre in Paris. The museum features fantastic objects just like the one in Paris, but on a smaller scale. The Louvre Abu Dhabi also has contracts with Centre Pompidou and Musee D\u2019Orsay and features exhibits of non-western traditional art. The Louvre Abu Dhabi has purchased half of its artifacts, while the other half are on loan from the Louvre in Paris and other French museums.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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How does the Louvre Abu Dhabi compare to the Louvre in Paris?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Louvre Abu Dhabi is, of course, much smaller. It is built on the Sa\u2019adiyat island and thus is surrounded by water. There will eventually be a cluster of museums on this island; the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi museum, the Zayed National Museum, a maritime museum, and the Abrahamic family house are planned to open in a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designed by Jean Nouvel, the Louvre in Abu Dhabi is made up of 55 smaller buildings. The buildings are very modern, and its Oriental yet ultra-modern dome, which seems like it’s floating, represents a sky of almost 8,000 metal stars. This allows the sun to filter through its steel components and provide light to an oases of date palms.<\/p>\n\n\n

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