WRITTEN IN FRENCH How did the Louvre become an extraordinary experimental laboratory in perpetual reconfiguration? At a time when the universalist claims of Western museums are the subject of debate, historian Pierre Singaravélou goes back in time to understand how the Louvre became, in a little over two centuries, a special case in the history of museums: an extraordinary laboratory of experimentation in perpetual reconfiguration. Leading the investigation into the traces of museums created in the mid-19th century to increase the areas of expertise of the Louvre (Naval Museum, Ethnographic
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