May 2021: Building Universal Access to Singular Museum Experiences
May 2021, newsletter 52
U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum
Our heart was beating at the announcement of Laurence des Cars’ appointment as President of the Louvre museum on Tuesday.
After being Orsay’s driving force for 4 years, her ambition is to change the Louvre into a "fully contemporary museum open up to the world of today while telling us about the past, giving relevance to the present through the brilliance of the past. We need time, we need perspective, we are coming out of a destabilising crisis, we are living in exciting but complicated times … We are all a little bit at a loss for direction. I think the Louvre has a lot to say to young people, too, who will be at the centre of my concerns as president of the Louvre.”
We wish Laurence des Cars our best wishes of success to run this universal museum.