Louvre may safeguard artefacts from war-torn areas

Endangered works of art from war-torn regions may be housed at the Louvres planned new storage facility in Livin near Lens, said Franois Hollande, the President of France, yesterday (1 November).
Hollande was speaking at the Louvre-Lens where he opened the exhibition History Begins in Mesopotamia (until 23 January 2017). The French mission to safeguard cultural sites in areas of conflict, preventing the pillaging and trafficking of objects, is moving ahead, he said. This show has not come about