The situation is worrying. Even more and more worried, up to the highest summit of the State, at the Élysée. How to secure the Louvre-Abu Dhabi, opened in 2017, in partnership with the Parisian Louvre, in a diplomatic framework between the French State and the emirate?
Since a drone attack hit the French naval base of Al Salam on March 1, causing a fire in a warehouse 300 m from the museum, the Quai d’Orsay and the Élysée have been monitoring the situation very closely. Just like the major French museums, around fifteen of which lend pieces each year, on a rotating basis, to Jean Nouvel’s sublime building, originally nicknamed “The Louvre of the Desert”.