Il Louvre Lens in France, combines the most famous museum in France and one of the most famous in the world with a mining town in the north of France, in Lens, which has gone through crises and wars and is now reborn in the name of culture.
Opened in December of the 2012, on the day of Santa Barbara, patron saint of miners, the Louvre Lens is not a detached section of the Louvre in Paris, but a great new museum of the XNUMXst century. The structure is a very bright casket, desired and designed by the architects Sejima and Nishizawa of the Japanese studio SANAA, which fits perfectly into the surrounding environment. One of the most beautiful museums in a mining basin, a beautiful and successful challenge. Among other things, the mining basin of Nord-Pas de Calis is listed by Unesco in the World Heritage Sitesin short, a location that is not worth anything.
Half an hour from Lille, one hour from Paris and two hours from London you can easily get to this beautiful place. The great peculiarity of this museum is that the 28.000 square meters and the 5 pavilions they offer as many as 200 works from the Parisian museum, starting with the wonderful painting “The freedom that guides the people” by Delacroix.
The particularity, we said, is how these works were arranged, not for artists, but for eras: Antiquity, Middle Ages and Modern Age. There Time Gallery it is a glass pavilion, illuminated by natural light in front of the park where you can visit the most beautiful works of the Louvre Lens.
