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The Louvre Opens Its First Satellite Museum
"Strictly speaking, overcrowding is not the reason why the Louvre is building a $200 million facility in the Pas-de-Calais region of France. It has more to do with the accessibility of the town of Lens - which can be reached by train in two to three hours from Paris, London and Brussels - and a deep need for urban renewal in an old coal industry center that lost its last mine in 1986, pushing unemployment to 15 percent." Smithsonian 07/05/12
"Strictly speaking, overcrowding is not the reason why the Louvre is building a $200 million facility in the Pas-de-Calais region of France. It has more to do with the accessibility of the town of Lens - which can be reached by train in two to three hours from Paris, London and Brussels - and a deep need for urban renewal in an old coal industry center that lost its last mine in 1986, pushing unemployment to 15 percent." Smithsonian 07/05/12
Posted July 6, 2012 12:57 AM
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