…asks the New York Times?
The New York Times recently published a list of 46 Places to Go in 2013. In 26th position, after Burgos in Spain and ahead of Changbaishan in China, come Lens and the new Louvre-Lens.
Lens, an industrial town in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France, is aiming to become the next Bilbao, comments the influential NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/10/travel/2013-places-to-go.html?smid=fb-nytimes
300.000 visitors in 3 months
The Louvre-Lens was inaugurated by President Hollande on 4th December and by the 28th had already welcomed its 100,000th visitor. By March this figure had increased to 300,000. Louvre-Lens has become the most popular museum in the north and among the top 5 in France….in just three short months. Not only are visitor numbers so positive, but the project has already created over 100 jobs and many new partnerships with local businesses in the region. A really inspirational start…..
Waiting for Rubens
The Louvre Lens has no permanent collection. It relies on rotating loans from the Paris Louvre. For the next 5 years the main Gallery of Time has 205 masterpieces on show covering a period from the birth of writing in 3,500BC to the mid 19th Century.
From 22 May to 23 September there’ll be a blockbuster exhibition running in parallel; ‘The Europe of Rubens’ with 170 of his works and those of his contemporaries. A definitely not-to-be-missed event….
For more information on current and coming exhibitions
Synergies special guest in this edition is Laurence Péan, Managing Director of the new Nord France Convention Bureau. Although originally from Touraine, she has worked in Normandy as Director of Tourism for Deauville before moving to Paris to take over responsibility for the Meeting Industry Department of Atout France, France’s National Tourism Development Agency. Laurence […]
The thinking around the concept and creation of a new satellite Louvre began in 2003. In late 2004 Lens in the heart of French mining country was chosen from among six candidates in Northern France as host city for this spectacular new museum. In 2005 the Japanese firm Sanaa won an international competition involving 124 […]
New synergies in textile exhibitions… in Lille, where else? …and at Lille Grand Palais Convention & Exhibition Centre. Two major fashion exhibitions will be held alongside each other in June. Tissu Premier is an international trade fair for fashion fabrics and accessories and is held three times a year on key dates for the fashion […]
Mi-mai c’est Le rendez-vous des adeptes de marathon : La route du Louvre. 6e édition, cette course internationale organisée par la ligue Nord-Pas de Calais d’Athlétisme a pour principe de relier le bassin minier et la métropole lilloise par un parcours de 42,195 km ! Top départ le 15 mai 2011. Sportifs et sportives de […]
Après des années de préparation, le Louvre Lens ouvrira enfin ses portes au public le 12 décembre prochain. Visite guidée de ce temple de la culture, à seulement deux heures de route de Paris, avec Xavier Dectot, directeur du Louvre Lens. Au cœur de l’ancien bassin minier, à mi-chemin entre Lille et Arras, ce « nouveau […]
