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Louvre - DNP Museum Lab, Sèvres Porcelain, an Art of Living in the 18th Century

Feast your eyes on the beauty of 18th-century Sèvres porcelain in the Louvre’s Napoléon III Apartments. Cutting-edge multimedia resources, designed in the context of the Museum Lab project, will help you discover how these porcelain pieces were made.

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Published on Dec 14, 2011

The Louvre invites J. M. G. Le Clézio – Museums are Worlds

The Louvre Museum’s guest of honor this season, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, will be offering his own fresh perspective on the Louvre’s collections, through a multi-disciplinary program of events in the museum’s galleries and its auditorium. Museums are Worlds.

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Published on Dec 14, 2011

El niño azul, Goya and Spanish Painting in the Louvre

The Louvre - DNP Museum Lab project is a collaborative venture between the Louvre and Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd (DNP), designed to explore new approaches to art appreciation. The theme chosen for the ninth presentation is portraiture in the work of the great Spanish painter Goya.

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Published on Apr 25, 2012

Le 28 Juillet. La Liberté guidant le peuple (28 juillet 1830)

The Galerie du Temps at the Louvre-Lens. A unique presentation of 205 works of art

Several months in advance of the planned opening of the Louvre - Lens on December 4, 2012, the Committee for Loans and Deposits of the Musées de France has approved the initial selection of 205 works that will be presented in the museum’s Galerie du Temps, home to a semi-permanent exhibition unlike any other ever put on public view before.

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Published on May 23, 2012

Louvre - DNP Museum Lab Egypt

Enjoy an innovative museum experience at the Louvre’s Department of Egyptian Antiquities! State-of-the-art, fun-touse multimedia resources, developed for the ‘Louvre – DNP Museum Lab’ project, are available to help you understand the conventions of Egyptian art and decipher a funerary stela: the Stela of Sakherty.

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Published on Jun 7, 2012

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