In the February 23, 2021 issue of The New York Times, Elaine Sciolino writes about the Louvre’s new storage facility in Lievin, France (“
Louvre Moves Some Treasures”) to which 100,000 works have been transferred since October 2019 and which will eventually house 250,000 works from the collection, keeping them safe from flooding. (Works on paper and parchment will remain in storage on an upper floor of the Louvre high above the Seine.) The facility was designed for more than object storage and the museum intends it to become one of Europe’s largest art research centers to which scholars and conservators from around the world will come. Does this sound like a future France-based version of the Getty Research and Conservation Centers?
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