Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
What does microbiology and the @MuseeLouvre have in common? What is art conservation? How do you keep an art museum covering over 652,300 square feet from deteriorating due to everything from algae and moss to millions of visitors?
Go behind-the-scenes with me to understand what it takes to keep ancient sculptures to the modern pyramid entrance preserved and protected 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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What does microbiology and the @MuseeLouvre have in common? What is art conservation? How do you keep an art museum covering over 652,300 square feet from deteriorating due to everything from algae and moss to millions of visitors?
Go behind-the-scenes with me to understand what it takes to keep ancient sculptures to the modern pyramid entrance preserved and protected 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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