Like many museums around the world, Louvre Abu Dhabi is closed on Mondays. Every now and then, the museum still receives visitors on these days, f.e. when we have school take-overs, or special guests who, for different reasons, cannot come during normal opening hours.
Last Monday I got called in for a special tour booked in from the Swedish Embassy. I took a small delegation around the museum with the H.E. Ambassador of Sweden to the UAE and the guest of honour, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden H.E. Jan Knutsson.
None of the many previous Ambassadors have ever turned up to the museum (at least not while I have been there), so I was really happy to finally get to deliver a tour for the Embassy, in Swedish of course! Hopefully this will lead to many more for their official visitors in the future!
It was such a special experience as we had the whole museum to ourselves! We only had one of the Security Agents escort us, no one else was there.
I showed them all the pride of Scandinavia in the collection: the wooden throne by Norwegian Lars Kinsarvik, the wooden bowls by the Danish artist Merete Larsen, the wooden leaf by Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala and of course - the flower pot by Swedish artist Alf Wallander.
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