Dubai-based construction firm Arabtec announced on Tuesday that it had won the 2.4 billion dirham construction contract for the Middle East outpost of the famous French museum and will begin construction immediately.
He uncovers a French plot to infiltrate the museum and snatch the Rosetta Stone (the ancient artefact that provides the key to Egyptian hieroglyphs) in order to return it not to Egypt but to France, which first discovered and translated it.
The Cabildo, a historic government building and one of the Louisiana State Museum's five French Quarter properties, has reopened with limited hours.
Designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, the museum will encompass some 24, 000sqm of pavilions, plazas, alleyways and canals, with about 8, 000sqm of exhibit space.
No decision has yet been taken on whether the painting will have to be removed, the museum was quoted as saying by French broadcaster France 3.
Villagers hoped Mr. Ehrmann would pull the plug on his museum in December 2009, when a French court ordered him to restore the place to its original look.
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Every British and French Concorde was partly manufactured at Brooklands, and the museum now has Concorde G-BBDG on display.
Its 26 renovated and enlarged galleries are reminiscent of those at the core of the museum devoted to the Renaissance and British and French paintings.
In 1982, a French scientist named Roger Bour of the Paris Natural History Museum concluded that the Schweigger specimen didn't originate from Aldabra, after all.
The trip included visits to the forbidden city and great wall of China in Beijing, the terra cotta warrior museum in Xi An and the Bund and French Concession in Shanghai.
The museum-worthy pieces include couture gowns and suits from French fashion greats such as Chanel, Dior and Yves Saint Laurent.
Edelman had set up Museum Partners in the 1990s to acquire a stake in a French company then controlled by the Taittinger family that held assets like Baccarat Crystal and Taittinger Champagne.
But another opportunity arose recently when I visited the Metropolitan Museum with Gilles Bourdos, the director of "Renoir, " a French film that was set to have its debut a few days later.
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The Dutch, English and French editions are the joint project of the Huygens Institute and Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum.
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