Opening ceremony at the Louvre Museum
The exhibition “A Revolutionary Museum, Alexandre Lenoir’s Museum of French Monuments” has open in the new space dedicated to temporary exhibition transformed by h2o architectes. Located at the Rotonde Sully wing, the exhibition traces the development of the Museum of French Monuments founded in 1795 by Alexandre Lenoir. Second national museum after the Louvre in 1793, it played a major part in the birth of the notion of heritage and the emergence of medieval history.