Laurence de Carr, 54, the current president of the Orsay Museum in Paris, will become the first woman director of the world’s largest museum, the Louvre, as he will succeed Jean-Luc Martinez, who has led it since 2013.
The announcement was made today by the French presidency, confirming information from the radio station France Inter.
De Car ran the Orsay Museum for four years.
Art historian of the 19th century. and the early 20th, was distinguished for its dynamism, especially with the construction site “Orsay Grand ouvert” which aimed to expand planning and space, as noted by AMPE.
He emphasized diversity, in matters of society, in attracting the new generations. In 2019 the exhibition “Le modèle noir” made a special impression.
During her tenure his guests Orce, one of the largest museums in Europe for the period 1848-1914, was constantly growing: up to 3,700,000 people visited the museum in 2019.
The daughter of journalist and writer Jean de Carr, the granddaughter of novelist Guy de Carr, she was also the scientific director of France-Muséums, the French service responsible for developing the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and later the Orangerie Museum.
Jean-Luc Martinez, 57, historian and archaeologist, specialist in Greek antiquity, completed his third term and was interim head of the public museum since 13 April.
With a special care for the access of everyone to the Louvre, fighting against elitism, he reorganized and changed the layout of the museum in order to make it more welcoming. During his tenure, the number of visitors exceeded ten million in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, a world record.
The final choice for the appointment of the presidents of major public museums such as the Louvre, Versailles, Pompidou or Orsay is the decision of the president.
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