In pictures: The Louvre opens in Abu Dhabi

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In pictures: The Louvre opens in Abu Dhabi

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(Web Desk) – Projecting its image as a city of cultural tourism, Abu Dhabi, with a display of hundreds of works that hope to draw visitors from around the world, will open its Louvre museum on Saturday.

Surrounded by water from three sides, the museum houses 600 artworks alongside 300 works on loan from 13 leading French institutions in its 23 permanent galleries.

The artists range from Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh to Pablo Picasso and Cy Twombly.

While the entrance ticket to the museum is 60 dirhams, all 5,000 tickets have sold out for the opening day.

The intricate roof of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. Photo: AFP

A woman looks at a statue titled “Horses of the Sun” by French sculptor Gilles Guerin. Photo: AFP

Part of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, photographed prior to its inauguration. Photo: AFP

A woman looks at paintings in the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum during a media tour. Photo: AFP

Part of the exterior of the museum surrounded by water. Photo: AFP

A cleaner sweeps the floor next to the painting titled “Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, Crossing the Alps” by French artist Jacques-Louis David in the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photo: AFP

A view of the exterior of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photo: AFP

People walk near a sculpture by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone inside the Louvre Abu Dhabi on November 7, 2017, a day before the official opening. Photo: AFP

Part of the exterior of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum on Saadiyat Island, United Arab Emirates. Photo: AFP

A journalist walks under the rays of light coming through of the dome of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photo: AP

A woman poses in front of part of a series of nine panels titled “Untitled I-IX” by American painter Cy Twombly, during a media tour of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photo: AFP

Moroccan King Mohammed VI looks at a painting titled “Whistler’s Mother” by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1871). Photo: AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte, are welcomed by Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, left, and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, right, to the official opening of Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photo: AP

The bronze sculpture “Walking Man, On a Column by Auguste Rodin” stands under light beams coming through the dome of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photo: AP

A night view of the Louvre Abhu Dhabi, with the city skyline of Abu Dhabi in the background. Photo: AP