Style and Art » united-arab-emirates http://www.styleandart.com Your Daily Dose of Beauty Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:32:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Louvre Museum in Abu-Dhabi announced http://www.styleandart.com/louvre-museum-in-abu-dhabi-announced/ http://www.styleandart.com/louvre-museum-in-abu-dhabi-announced/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:09:57 +0000 Style and Art http://www.styleandart.com/louvre-museum-in-abu-dhabi-announced/ Louvre Abu-Dhabi
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 by the French architect Jean Nouvel. Planned as a universal museum, it will include art from all eras and regions, including Islamic art.

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