French Culture Minister Renaud Vabres presentation of the project branch of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi in 2007
Source: reuters.com

This week it became known that the government of Abu Dhabi in the next revised once construction projects affiliates Louvre and the Guggenheim Museum. The local branch of the main French museum opens in Abu Dhabi in 2015, a branch of the New York Guggenheim Museum will receive its first visitors only in 2017. Under the new plan, another cultural institution, whose construction conducted in the emirate, the National Museum of Sheikh Zayed to open in 2016 year. Previously, the opening of all three museums have been planned for years 2013-2014 (in 2009 said that the Arab Louvre will receive its first visitors in 2012 ).

UAE capital Abu Dhabi is planning to invest billions of dollars in tourism and industry, to strengthen the country's economy, which is still largely based on oil exports. Projects developing various sectors of the economy created by the economic crisis (2003-2008), but today, in the new economy, they have to revise and refine. The fact that the construction of branches Louvre, the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Sheikh Zayed suspended, it became known in October last year (if such a solution architect Frank Gehry Guggenheim Branch (Frank Gehry) called painful.) stated earlier the cost of construction cultural complex on Saadiyat Island was 27 billion dollars.

government of Abu Dhabi in a statement explained that despite the delays and the revision of original plans, the builders have done a great job. The plans of the initiators of the project, a new cultural complex will "transform Abu Dhabi into the tourist capital of the world-class».

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

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