LOUVER ABUDHABI

Louver Abu dhabi is new cultural beacon , bringing different cultures together to shine fresh light on the shared stories of humanity .

A Pioneer cultural Project – The First of its kind & A Universal Museum in Arab world.

ARCHITECTURE

Virtually surrounded by the sea, the dozens of buildings that comprise the museum are linked by waterfront promenades and by the museum’s most arresting feature, its dome.The huge, 180-metre-wide dome is comprised of eight layers and appears to float above the museum complex. As sunlight filters through the dome’s perforations, it creates a ‘rain of light’ effect in the museum galleries below.

NOTABLE ARTWORKS

The museum collection includes a number of significant works, including one of the finest examples of a standing Bactrian Princess from approximately 2000 BCE, a 3,000-year-old Middle-Eastern gold bracelet with lion’s head and an 1878 painting by Osman Hamdi Bey titled ‘A Young Emir Studying’. 
Other important works include Paul Gauguin’s masterpiece ‘Children Wrestling’, the René Magritte painting ‘The Subjugated Reader’, a 1928 collage by Picasso titled ‘Portrait of a Lady’,  nine canvases by contemporary artist Cy Twombly and the most ancient known photographic representation of a veiled woman.