His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, announced the date the opening of Louvre Abu Dhabi on Twitter. The gallery is to be inaugurated on November 11.
Earlier today, His Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, delivered a speech at an official opening date ceremony of the ambitious cultural institution at Manarat Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi.
The ‘Museum on the Sea’ is part of the the Saadiyat Cultural District, which will also house the Zayed National Museum and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
Speaking to a press conference before the announcement, Al Mubarak emphasized the importance of the museum’s opening, not just as a cultural institution, but as a statement of intent.
“Abu Dhabi has put its hand on its heart and said that the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s messages are ones that it wants to send to the rest of the world: messages of unity, acceptance, connectivity and tolerance,” he said.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi’s director and the TCA chairman both made a commitment that come November 11, the museum will be fully-operational, with almost 700 exhibits on display; approximately half of which will belong to the museum’s permanent collection, while the other half will consist of loans from 13 major French cultural institutions including the Louvre Museum, the Musée d’Orsay and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The loans will include Monet’s La Gare Saint-Lazare, a self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci’s enigmatic La Belle Ferronniére, which will leave Europe for the first time to become the first painting by the Renaissance polymath to be exhibited in the Middle East.
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