The Seine will reach his highest level in Friday midday: the Louvre and Orsay museums were closed and evacuate artworks of parts that could be flooded.
The Orsay museum, closed since Thursday night, keep doors closed until Tuesday because Monday is a day of usual closing, announced its president, Guy Cogeval. He was speaking after a meeting at the Louvre between the Minister of Culture, Audrey Azoulay, and managers of public cultural institutions affected by the floods. Located along the Seine, Orsay museum hosted last year 3.4 million visitors.
On the other bank, the Louvre, the most visited museum in the world with some 9 millions people per year, will be decided in the afternoon depending on the evolution of the situation, do we learned from this establishment also closed this Friday.
The Museum of Decorative Arts, adjacent to the Louvre, taken measures to take shelter her textile pieces and furniture stored in reserves threatened by the flood. But he remained open this Friday, as the Orangerie museum, located on a higher location in the Tuileries Garden.
After several days of exceptional rainfall, the level of the Seine reaches the threshold of 6 meters and a peak is expected in the evening of Friday, "abt 6.30 meters and even 6.50 meters", said the Ministry of Environment.
Source : CultureBox
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