France, Nord Pas de Calais, Lens. The Louvre-Lens. An art museum located in the industrial city of Lens, in Northern France. It displays objects from the collections of the Musée du Louvre that are lent to the gallery on a medium or long term basis.
Though the museum maintains close institutional links with the Louvre, it is primarily funded by the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region

The building is composed of a series of low-laying volumes clad in glass and stainless steel in the middle of a 60-acre former mining site, largely reclaimed by nature. The estimated cost for this building is 82 million euros. The new satellite building was commissioned after an international architectural competition in 2005. The Japanese architects SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) of Tokyo, associated with architects Imrey-Culbert (New York) and landscape architect Catherine Mosbach (Paris).

The inaugural exhibition "Renaissance, Revolution in Art, 1400-1530"