Eight years after Bernard Arnaud, chairman of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, first announced the project, the Fondation Louis Vuitton art museum will finally open its doors on October 27. Located west of Paris in the Bois de Boulogne district and constructed at a rumored cost of $136 million, the museum will showcase works from the 20th and 21st centuries and will draw from the LVMH corporate collection, an initiative spearheaded by Arnault (himself a noted art collector).

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