Louvre Abu Dhabi

And, uh, if you watch my documentary called Victory of Our Lady of Las Lajas, it talks about, uh, the Aztecs and the Mayans and the Incas, and the, the fact they all had human sacrifice, and they all had a serpent, a feathered serpent deity, and how the origin of those religions actually are the Olmecs.

So, if you go to Abu Dhabi in, in, uh, the United Arab Emirates, and you walk into the museum of their Louvre, the first thing you're gonna see is a huge Olmec, uh, heads, heads structure.

And understanding that belief system is called, uh, it's the mystery of iniquity.

It's what we have in Catechism 675, what we, what we talk about.

So it has been extremely complicated.

Uh, it's gonna be a museum of modern and contemporary art, obviously, and it's joining the sort of growing community of museums on Saadiyat Cultural Island, which includes the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Zayed National Museum already.

And it's contemporary, as in it's, basically it's saying it's 1960 to now, and it says its focus is West Asia, North Africa, and South Asia, and the wider region.

So it's gonna be quite different.

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You can also see that, you know, they've invested in trade, finance, science, culture.

You know, you have the Louvre in Aberdeen.

So in a way that they're trying to emulate that, but they are still a small city state.

And unless they can manage the family affairs, and it's still a relatively small family, the Medici's lasted for a good 300 years.

Pretty much vanishes off the face of the earth, publicly speaking.

It was supposed to be unveiled at the Louvre Abu Dhabi in September 2018.

Big announcement.

Postponed indefinitely.

With the museums that have opened recently, the Zayad National Museum, the Guggenheim that is still on its way and plan to open its doors in December.

Joining the Louvre as part of that most concentrated museum district.

Let's look at the museum experience.

Again, it's all about the guest journey throughout that.