Louvre Abu Dhabi: The Complete Guide

by Abu Dhabi Department of Culture & Tourism

The Louvre Abu Dhabi has been conceived as a “museum city” or Arabic “medina.” It will be the first Arabic museum of a universal vocation, located in the Saadiyat Cultural District, conceived as a bridge to the future with the purpose of linking knowledge and civilizations. Designed as a global art history handbook across the museum’s collections, the Guide takes the reader on a cross-cultural journey through the entire museum, gallery by gallery. The museum is a place of dialogue between cultures and civilizations and offers a transversal vision of art history, with art from the first villages to the first great powers, from civilizations and empires to universal religions, from Asian trade routes to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, from cosmographies to modern art.

390 pages, Paperback

Published June 26, 2018

Reviews

[Dana Clinton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review: Louvre Abu Dhabi: The Complete Guide (Jean-François Charnier). One of the highlights of my awe-inspiring trip to the UAE in December was this magnificent museum... and even though Rachel and I spent hours there, it wasn't enough to absorb all we wanted. So I did purchase this beautifully crafted tome, and I have been reading it bit by bit (4-6 pages a day). This museum "took the form of an intergovernmental agreement, signed by the United Arab Emirates and France on 6 March 2007...on that day, the two governments agreed to create a new museum in Abu Dhabi, a country whose outstanding dynamism is a central element of the contemporary world. This new museum would celebrate the universal stories of humanity..." At heart, it "wishes to show how art transcends national boundaries and narrow ideological clashes. Art flows freely: art can inspire people who have never met, who may have even lived centuries apart. What matters is that we can see the beauty and truth in what such works of art represent. Every aspect of the Louvre Abu Dhabi reflects this philosophy of universalism: from the arrangements of the galeries to to works shown within them." I can't produce a better overall summary than that. I learned so so very much with my day-by-day travels throughout the world introduced and illustrated in these pages. It made me feel more connected to all of the history of the world and its peoples.

[Fatemah Abdel Haleem · Rating 5 out of 5]

I no longer need to visit the museum, I enjoyed literally every page of this book, it had all the information I may need to know, pictures are magnificent. I felt like I'm there, the story telling was very insightful and unique.

I imagined myself walking there with every part.

tbh, by the end I felt so sleepy and this always happens to me when I'm reading something historical as my mind goes away with the story.


loved it.

[Asma Jay · Rating 5 out of 5]

A well-written piece about the museum and the pieces in it. It would be better if historical details were further explained. However, it is a good one that I would suggest taking with every visit to the louvre Abu Dhabi.