Editing Louvre (section)

== Satellites and offshoots ==
Several museums in and outside France have been or are placed under the Louvre's administrative authority or linked to it through exclusive partnerships, while not being located in the [[Louvre Palace]]. Since 2019, the Louvre has also maintained a large art storage and research facility in the Northern French town of [[Liévin]], the {{ill|Centre de conservation du Louvre|fr}}, which is not open to the public.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=12 February 2021 |title=A New, Safe Home for the Louvre's Unseen Treasures |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/arts/design/louvre-lievin-conservation-center.html |access-date=17 January 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

=== Musée de Cluny (1926–1977) ===
{{Main|Musée de Cluny}}

In February 1926, the [[Musée de Cluny]], whose creation dates back to the 19th century, was brought under the aegis of the Louvre's department of decorative arts ({{lang|fr|Objets d'Art}}).<ref>{{cite web|website=French National Archives |url=https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/siv/rechercheconsultation/consultation/ir/pdfIR.action?irId=FRAN_IR_053949 |page=7 |title=Archives des musées nationaux, musée de cluny (Série J) – répertoire numérique n° 20144783 |author=Hélène Brossier |date=2014}}</ref> That affiliation was terminated in 1977.<ref>{{citation|journal=Grande Galerie – le Journal du Louvre |volume=52 |date=Autumn 2020 |page=12 |title=Alain Erlande-Brandebourg, l'homme des cathédrales |author=Sophie Jugie}}</ref>

=== Musée du Jeu de Paume (1947–1986) ===
{{Main|Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume}}

The {{lang|fr|Jeu de Paume}} building in the [[Tuileries Garden]], initially intended as a sports venue, was repurposed from 1909 as an art gallery. In 1947, it became the exhibition space for the Louvre's collections of late 19th and early 20th paintings, most prominently [[Impressionism]], as the Louvre Palace was lacking space to display them, and was consequently brought under direct management by the Louvre's {{lang|fr|Département des Peintures}}. In 1986, these collections were transferred to the newly created [[Musée d'Orsay]].<ref>{{cite web |website=Jeu de Paume |url=https://jeudepaume.org/le-jeu-de-paume/le-jeu-de-paume-en-10-dates/ |title=Le Jeu de Paume en 10 dates |access-date=19 August 2021 |archive-date=19 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819165553/https://jeudepaume.org/le-jeu-de-paume/le-jeu-de-paume-en-10-dates/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon (since 1976) ===
{{Main|Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon}}

The Musée du Petit Palais opened in 1976 in the former urban mansion of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Avignon|archbishops of Avignon]], close to the [[Palais des Papes|Papal Palace]] in [[Avignon]]. An initiative led by Avignon Mayor {{ill|Henri Duffaut|fr}} and Louvre President-Director [[Michel Laclotte]], part of its permanent collection is made of artworks from the {{ill|Collection Campana|fr}} deposited by the Louvre. On {{date|2024-04-02}}, a new agreement between the City of Avignon and the Louvre allowed its rebranding as {{lang|fr|Musée du Petit Palais – Louvre en Avignon}}.<ref>{{citation|journal=Grande Galerie – le Journal du Louvre |volume=67 |date=Summer 2024 |page=14 |title=Louvre en Avignon, Acte 2 : Rencontre entre Laurence des Cars, présidente-directrice du musée du Louvre, et Cécile Helle, maire d'Avignon |author=Valérie Coudin}}</ref>

=== Gypsothèque du Louvre (since 2001) ===
The {{lang|fr|[[gypsotheque|gypsothèque]]}} (plaster cast gallery) of the Louvre is a collection of [[plaster cast]]s that was formed in 1970 by the reunion of the corresponding inventories of the Louvre, the {{lang|fr|[[Beaux-Arts de Paris]]|italic=no}} and the Art and Archaeology Institute of the [[Sorbonne University]], the latter two following depredations during the [[May 68]] student unrest. Initially called the {{lang|fr|Musée des Monuments Antiques}} from 1970 to 1978, the project was subsequently left unfinished and only came to fruition after being brought under the Louvre's management by ministerial decision in 2001.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Jean-Luc Martinez |title=La gypsothèque du musée du Louvre à Versailles |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |volume=153 |date=2009 |issue=3 |pages=1127–1152 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_2009_num_153_3_92593}}</ref> It is located in the [[Petite Écurie]], a dependency of [[Versailles Palace]], and has been open to the public since 2012.<ref>{{cite web|website=Connaissance des Arts |url=https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/monuments-patrimoine/chateau-versailles/la-gypsotheque-du-louvre-rouvre-a-versailles-1120180/ |author=Benoît Lafay |date=17 October 2012 |title=La gypsothèque du Louvre rouvre à Versailles}}</ref>

=== Musée Delacroix (since 2004) ===
{{Main|Musée national Eugène Delacroix}}

The small museum located in [[Eugène Delacroix]]'s former workshop in central Paris, created in the 1930s, has been placed under management by the Louvre since 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.louvre.fr/en/the-louvre-in-france-and-around-the-world/the-musee-national-eugene-delacroix |website=Louvre |title=The musée national Eugène-Delacroix}}</ref>

=== Louvre-Lens (since 2012) ===
{{Main|Louvre-Lens}}

The Louvre-Lens follows a May 2003 initiative by then culture minister [[Jean-Jacques Aillagon]] to promote cultural projects outside of Paris that would make the riches of major Parisian institutions available to a broader French public, including a satellite ({{lang|fr|antenne}}) of the Louvre.<ref>{{cite web|website=LaDepeche.fr |title=Jean-Jacques Aillagon dévoile son plan de décentralisation culturelle |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2003/05/27/197315-jean-jacques-aillagon-devoile-son-plan-de-decentralisation-culturelle.html |date=27 May 2003}}</ref> After several rounds of competition, a former mining site in the town of [[Lens, Pas-de-Calais|Lens]] was selected for its location and announced by Prime Minister [[Jean-Pierre Raffarin]] on 2004-11-29. Japanese architects [[SANAA]] and landscape architect Catherine Mosbach were respectively selected in September 2005 to design the museum building and garden. Inaugurated by President [[François Hollande]] on 2012-12-04, the Louvre-Lens is run by the [[Hauts-de-France]] region under a contract ({{lang|fr|convention scientifique et culturelle}}) with the Louvre for art loans and brand use. Its main attraction is an exhibition of roughly 200 artworks from the Louvre on a rotating basis, presented chronologically in a single large room (the {{lang|fr|Galerie du Temps}} or "gallery of time") that transcends the geographical and object-type divisions along which the Parisian Louvre's displays are organized. The Louvre-Lens has been successful at attracting around 500,000 visitors per year until the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{cite web|website=France Bleu |title=2019 a été un excellent millésime pour le Louvre-Lens avec plus de 530 000 visiteurs |date=10 January 2020 |author=Claire Mesureur |url=https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/culture-loisirs/2019-a-ete-un-excellent-millesime-pour-le-louvre-lens-avec-plus-de-530-mille-visiteurs-1578588346}}</ref>

=== Louvre Abu Dhabi (since 2017) ===
{{Main|Louvre Abu Dhabi}}

The [[Louvre Abu Dhabi]] is a separate entity from the Louvre, but the two entities have a multifaceted contractual relationship that allows the Emirati museum to use the Louvre name until 2037, and to exhibit artworks from the Louvre until 2027.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Louvre Abu Dhabi |url=https://www.louvre.fr/en/the-louvre-in-france-and-around-the-world/the-louvre-abu-dhabi |access-date=9 December 2022 |website=Le Louvre |language=en}}</ref> It was inaugurated on 2017-11-08 and opened to the public three days later. A 30-year agreement, signed in early 2007 by French Culture Minister [[Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres]] and Sheik Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, establishes that Abu Dhabi shall pay €832,000,000 (US$1.3&nbsp;billion) in exchange for the Louvre name use, managerial advice, art loans, and special exhibitions.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 March 2007 |title=Louvre to build branch in Abu Dhabi |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17482641 |access-date=17 January 2023 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> The Louvre Abu Dhabi is located on [[Saadiyat Island]] and was designed by the French architect [[Jean Nouvel]] and engineering firm of [[Buro Happold]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Louvre Abu Dhabi |url=http://www.jeannouvel.com/en/projects/louvre-abou-dhabi-3/ |access-date=9 December 2022 |website=Ateliers Jean Nouvel |language=en-US}}</ref> It occupies {{convert|24000|m2|sqft}} and is covered by an iconic metallic dome designed to cast rays of light mimicking sunlight passing through [[date palm]] fronds in an [[oasis]]. The French art loans, expected to total between 200 and 300&nbsp;artworks during a 10-year period, come from multiple museums, including the Louvre, the [[Centre Georges Pompidou]], the [[Musée d'Orsay]], [[Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles|Versailles]], the [[Guimet Museum]], the [[Musée Rodin]], and the [[Musée du quai Branly]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/arts/design/07louv.html|title=The Louvre's Art: Priceless. The Louvre's Name: Expensive.|work=The New York Times |date=6 March 2007|access-date=24 April 2008 | first=Alan | last=Riding}}</ref>