Where: Spine Auditorium between Buildings 4 & 5
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Reinventing the universal museum in the 21st century?
Born of a collaboration between Abu Dhabi and France, Louvre Abu Dhabi is a universal museum that enables visitors to experience art—and humanity—in a new light. Masterworks by many of the world’s greatest artists are on display, revealing threads of creativity that connect diverse cultures across thousands of years, from Prehistory to current time. Housed in a magnificent domed structure designed by architect Jean Nouvel in Abu Dhabi’s cultural district on Saadiyat Island, Louvre Abu Dhabi opened to the public in November 2017. The presentation of the artworks brings together cultures and civilisations in the same galleries, in explorations of the general spirit of their times. After the presentation of the new museum, the lecture will ground the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the deep history of universal museums. It will explore the extent of their legacy before questioning its contribution to the 21st century world of museums.
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Noemi Daucé
Noëmi Daucé is currently Chief Curator at Louvre Abu Dhabi in charge of Archaeology. She is also managing the Research policy of the museum. A former student of the National Heritage Institute in Paris (INP), she is a graduate of Archaeology and Art History at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and the Ecole du Louvre. In 2010, she was appointed Curator for Archaeology in the French Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besançon and participated to the renovation of the museum and to the construction of the new storage area. She has been involved in the project of the Louvre Abu Dhabi since 2014 when she joined Agence France Museum as the curator for Archaeology and settled in Abu Dhabi to prepare the opening of the LAD. She has developed the LAD collection with major acquisitions, overviewing their conservation treatment, study and valorization through associated interpretation tools. She has supervised the installation of the collection of the French Loans in the First Wing of the Permanent Galleries, running from Prehistory to Late Antiquity. Being in charge of local and international loans, she has fostered international cooperation with other institutions in the UAE but also with Jordan, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
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