News Summary

• In November 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to the United Arab Emirates to inaugurate a new museum.
• The Louvre Abu Dhabi was to become the Arab world’s first “universal” museum, filled with art from around the globe.
• The Emiratis were paying the French $1 billion for the rights to the Louvre name, guidance on what art to buy, and loans of masterworks by Da Vinci, Matisse, and Van Gogh.
• In February 2019, a Manhattan prosecutor seized a golden mummy coffin from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, concluding that it had been looted in Egypt in 2011.