Louvre-Lens

Louvre-Lens is an art museum located in Lens, France. It is a satellite museum of the Louvre, which lends its collections to the smaller gallery on medium- or long-term basis. Its main gallery, the Gallery du temps, has its works displayed along two axes: in depth they are organized according to chronology and horizontally they are organized according to their continent of origin.

History

Created in 2012, the Louvre-Lens was built atop the Lens mining site number 9, which had been backfilled in 1980. Not only was the grove of trees in front of the building's main entrance located on the site of the former mine shaft entrance, the museum also included a hidden gallery linked to some remaining tunnels beneath.

In the 2020s, Assassin ally Simon Mulio infiltrated the Louvre-Lens during his search for a Templar treasure. In order to do so, Mulio had forged an employee badge to be allowed free access to the site. While there, he not only managed to locate the underground gallery, the entrance to which had been concealed behind the portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps, but also the treasure contained within. Knowing he had been under surveillance by Abstergo, Mulio implemented a computer security system at the museum to try and protect the gallery, before moving the treasure through the tunnels to Lens station and leaving town. After his disappearance, an Abstergo employee tracking him also visited the location, even managing to find the underground gallery, but by this point it was already empty.

Appearances

• Le Secret des Mines