Tips-4-Trips - #Tip74 -- The Louvre in Lens

The Musée du Louvre-Lens, which opened in December 2012, is located in the small mining town of Lens, which, with around 30,000 inhabitants, is situated in the middle of the mining region of Nord-Pas de Calais.

The Galerie du Temps is the centerpiece of the Louvre-Lens. It houses more than 200 masterpieces from the Louvre collections, spectacularly displayed over an area of 3,000 m². Here you can take a unique journey through the history of art, from the invention of writing in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC to the Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century. The installation, which is both chronological and multidisciplinary, creates a dialogue between epochs, techniques and civilizations.