The French Culture Ministry has this week appointed Jean-Luc Martinez the new head of the Louvre, taking over from Henri Loyrette, who has held the post since 2001.

Martinez currently runs the museum's Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities department, and will start his new post on 15 April.

In December the museum opened satellite site Louvre-Lens in northern France at a cost of 150m euro (US$196.02m, £121.80m).

In 2015 it will open its first international offshoot in Abu Dhabi, currently under construction by Dubai-based firm Arabtec Holdings.