Louvre-Lens director Xavier Dectot steps down after five years, and heads for Edinburgh

Xavier Dectot is stepping down as director of the Louvre-Lens museum in northern France to take up a new role at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, where the 42-year-old will head the department of art and design.
Opened in December 2012 on a former mining site, the northern outpost of the Paris museum has since welcomed almost two million visitors. The satellite branch drew 900,000 visitors in its first year compared with 400,000 in 2015.
When he was appointed early 2011, Dectot was