How Do You Keep the Louvre Alive? | Fighting time, climate change, and millions of visitors 🇫🇷 Ep. 2

The @Musée du Louvre. Covering over 652,300 square feet, including hundreds of sculptures, facades, and of course, tons of glass. How do you keep this living, breathing artwork from deteriorating due to time, people, and, of course, climate change?

I met up with Tiphanie, an expert in restoration and preservation who is in charge of keeping this work of art housing works of art for generations to come!

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00:00 Intro to The Louvre- How Do You Keep It Alive?
00:32 Meet Tiphaine, engineer and building supervisor at The Louvre.
00:55 How difficult is it to keep the facades and sculptures from being destroyed?
01:29 The 86 renowned men sculptures- Are they meant to be inside or outside?
02:00 What do algae and mosses do to the stone?
02:27 What are they mosses, and how do they work?
03:10 The new pyramid entrance- how to maintain it.
04:00 How do you keep the famous Salon Carée from disappearing while the museum is open?
05:17 Lighting the biggest art museum- how do you do it?
05:51 On the roof of the Louvre! Taking a closer look at the sculpture of Pierre Puget, architect of the Louvre.
07:14 Appreciating first-hand the work Tiphaine and her team do

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