Notre Dame treasures shine at Louvre Museum exhibition
Four years after a devastating fire destroyed much of Notre Dame, Paris’s Louvre Museum is holding an unprecedented exhibition of the treasures of the famed 12th-century cathedral.
As restoration efforts for the Notre Dame de Paris near their final stages, the Musée du Louvre is hosting a remarkable exhibition dedicated to the treasures of the cathedral. This treasury encompasses a wide array of religious and sacred objects, vestments used in worship, relics, manuscript books, and various precious artefacts, wionnews.com reported.
According to the Louvre museum’s website, after the exhibition, the priceless treasures will return to the cathedral’s neo-Gothic sacristy, which was originally designed by the architects Jean Baptiste Lassus and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc between 1845 and 1850.
Following the fire, the sacristy — a place for sacred objects has been meticulously renovated in anticipation of the cathedral’s grand reopening in 2024. The exhibition, which includes over 120 selected works, “provides a condensed history of the treasury”.
It will be up till January 29, 2024. These exhibits provide a unique opportunity to understand the treasury’s rich heritage, tracing its origins back to the Middle Ages and its remarkable revival in the 19th century.