Magzoid Magazine - Leading Art Magazine of MENA | May 2021

Guest of Honour
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Eric Dailey
The Louvre’s entire art collection goes online
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“Today, the Louvre
is dusting off its
treasures, even the
least-known,”
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The Louvre museum in works on display, those on long-term advances in research”. The Louvre
Paris has just put its entire loan and even works in storage. says its main website, Louvre.fr,
collection online. The “Today, the Louvre is dusting off received 21 million visits in 2020.
entire Supporting collection youth consisting its treasures, even the least-known,” By comparison, the Louvre, one
of more than 482,000 its president, Jean-Luc Martinez, of the most visited museums in the
pieces will be on display online which
makes it available for art lovers all
over the world to view it from any
where around for free.
said in a statement. “For the first
time, anyone can access the entire
collection of works from a computer
or smartphone for free, whether they
world, welcomed about 10.2 million
visitors in 2018. The new website
has three main sections, including
the explore section, which delves
The Louvre launched a new are on display in the museum, on into the history of various parts of the
website where digitized, highresolution
loan, even long-term, or in storage.” museum and the artworks housed
versions of the artworks
can be viewed. Of the 482,000 items
in the collection, more than three
quarters have already been labelled
To browse through the entire
collection online, visitors can use
simple or advanced search features
and look through themed albums.
inside. The Louvre closed to visitors
at the start of the pandemic and
briefly reopened over the summer
with new COVID-19 precautions. The
with information and pictures. The There is also an interactive map museum remains closed to visitors at
database contains World works Basketball from Competition the that allows them Always to move supporting from his this son, time Eric due Dailey to Paris’s lockdown and
Louvre and Musee National Eugene- one viewing room Jnr. to another. In is currently undergoing renovation
Delacroix, as well as sculptures from addition, the Louvre said the website like adding new security systems,
the Tuileries and Carrousel Gardens. is “updated regularly by museum cleaning sculptures, and reorganizing
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