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The government of Au-Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates has paid the International Agency for French Museums, $520 million dollars for the rights to use the name “Louvre” on the new art museum, set to open on 2012.
The building itself, pictured above in a computer rendering, will cost around $108 million dollars and was designed [...]
Workers at the Louvre in Paris went on a partial strike demanding a 150 euros bonus to “Compensate for the Stress of managing crowds a the museum”
Management at the Louvre said that only 5 percent of the museum’s 1,100 attendants were on strike.
