Pre-Trip Extension to Lille and new Louvre Museum in Lens We want to be among the first to visit the VERY new Louvre Museum in Lens (Northeast France). May 19 – 22, 2013

We leave by bus-transfer from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and drive to Lille where we will be staying for 3 nights. Included: • Full-day excursion (30 minutes away from Lille) to discover the much-anticipated Louvre Museum in Lens, first satellite of the famed Louvre Museum in Paris; the Japanese architect firm SANAA with NY architects Imrey-Culbert were awarded the project (out of 120 candidates) in 2005. The first stone was laid in 2009. Completion is December, 2012. “This museum will not be a mere annex of the Louvre, but the Louvre itself, in all its forms and in all its missions. The new and innovative approach of presentations at the Lens Louvre will give a new New Louvre Museum, Lens meaning to the works of the Louvre. The intention of the new gallery is to experiment and radicalise “All of the buildings, whether the displays sourced from the Louvre’s core holdings in its eight departments in the Paris palace reflective or transparent, mean- and to allow for larger visitor numbers outside the confines of the Paris.”... from Louvre Website der slightly along with the gentle curves of the site. To actually fuse • Guided tour of Lille’s superb Museum of Fine Arts nature with the structures, highly • Walking tour of Lille historic district reflective polished and anodized • NOTE: an option for this day would be visit the contemporary garden called Mosaic just outside aluminum facade clad the vol- town. umes, creating blurred reflections of the surroundings, changing with the scenery, the weather, and the Early transfer to Lille airport on May 22, 2013. 8:30 am flight (nonstop) to Marseille to meet the position of the person viewing it.” group arriving for the main tour is included in the trip.

As of the printing of this brochure, the exact price for the Pre-Trip Extension is not known. Please call Sandy Kessenick (510) 666-1301 or Sandy Wolfe (925) 284-2838 for more information.

Pre-Trip Extension to Lille and new Louvre Museum in Lens We want to be among the first to visit the VERY new Louvre Museum in Lens (Northeast France). May 19 – 22, 2013

We leave by bus-transfer from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and drive to Lille where we will be staying for 3 nights. Included: • Full-day excursion (30 minutes away from Lille) to discover the much-anticipated Louvre Museum in Lens, first satellite of the famed Louvre Museum in Paris; the Japanese architect firm SANAA with NY architects Imrey-Culbert were awarded the project (out of 120 candidates) in 2005. The first stone was laid in 2009. Completion is December, 2012. “This museum will not be a mere annex of the Louvre, but the Louvre itself, in all its forms and in all its missions. The new and innovative approach of presentations at the Lens Louvre will give a new New Louvre Museum, Lens meaning to the works of the Louvre. The intention of the new gallery is to experiment and radicalise “All of the buildings, whether the displays sourced from the Louvre’s core holdings in its eight departments in the Paris palace reflective or transparent, mean- and to allow for larger visitor numbers outside the confines of the Paris.” ...from Louvre Website der slightly along with the gentle curves of the site. To actually fuse • Guided tour of Lille’s superb Museum of Fine Arts nature with the structures, highly • Walking tour of Lille historic district reflective polished and anodized • NOTE: an option for this day would be visit the contemporary garden called Mosaic just outside aluminum facade clad the vol- town. umes, creating blurred reflections of the surroundings, changing with the scenery, the weather, and the Early transfer to Lille airport on May 22, 2013. 8:30 am flight (nonstop) to Marseille to meet the position of the person viewing it.” group arriving for the main tour is included in the trip.

As of the printing of this brochure, the exact price for the Pre-Trip Extension is not known. Please call Sandy Kessenick (510) 666-1301 or Sandy Wolfe (925) 284-2838 for more information.