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The Louvre Pyramid and its underground lobby, the Hall Napoléon, opened to the public on 29 March 1989. [46] A second phase of the Grand Louvre project, completed in 1993, created underground space below the Place du Carrousel to accommodate car parks, multi-purpose exhibition halls and a shopping mall named Carrousel du Louvre .
The open spaces surrounding the pyramid were inaugurated on 15 October 1988, and its underground lobby was opened on 30 March 1989. New galleries of early modern French paintings on the 2nd floor of the Cour Carrée, for which the planning had started before the Grand Louvre, also opened in 1989.
The pyramid in the Cour Napoléon shown on a schematic of the Louvre. The Grand Louvre project was announced in 1981 by François Mitterrand, the President of France. In 1983 the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei was selected as its architect. The pyramid structure was initially designed by Pei in late 1983 and presented to the public in ...
The Louvre, parts of which date to the 12th century, proved to be Pei's most controversial work, starting with the fact that he was not French. ... When it opened in 1993 he said he had wanted to ...
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The renovation project, branded “Louvre New Renaissance,” will include a new entrance near the River Seine, to be opened by 2031, and the creation of underground rooms, Macron said in a speech ...
The world’s largest art museum turns its eye to fashion for the first time in its 231-year-history with a “joyful” multi-designer exhibition.
Many of the paintings he acquired were unknown from the public because they came from religious collections. The Spanish Gallery opened to the public on 1838/01/07, in five rooms on the first floor of the Louvre Cour Carrée's East Wing. [4] The opening was accompanied by a lot of Royal marketing and publicity.