Foreword

5 Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, 
Chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi

7 Manuel Rabaté, Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi

Introduction

8 Jean Nouvel, The Museum and the Sea - The Museum and the City

10 Hala Wardé, The Sketch, the Words and the Thing

The Project

15 The Birth of a Project

17 A Cultural District

21 Parasol and Medina

33 The Taming of the Sun

57 The Exhibition Spaces

73 The Temporary Exhibition Gallery

75 In Situ

85 The Children's Museum

87 Louvre Abu Dhabi, A Place of Life

Conclusion

110 Jean Nouvel, A Frozen Dream of Light

113 Conclusion-recapitulation in the form of evocation-accumulation presented in a deliberately random order