The world-famous Louvre Museum has a couple branches outside Paris, namely in Lens and Abu Dhabi. There is also an officially sanctioned “sister” museum in Japan, however, albeit of a somewhat different kind. The Louvre Sculpture Museum opened in the city of Tsu in 1987, privately funded and founded by a Buddhist priest and entrepreneur named Yūjiro Takegawa. Greatly impressed by the Louvre in Paris, Takegawa negotiated with the museum over and over until it finally gave him its approval on his 17th visit to France. He had the building…
