To mark the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Pavillon des Sessions, the Louvre Museum and the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac will inaugurate a new space at the end of 2025: the Galerie des Cinq Continents. This redesigned space will embody the continuity of the founding gesture of 2000: to create a dialogue between masterpieces of African, Asian, Oceanic and American art and those of the Louvre's historical civilisations, within a single history of human creation and around universal themes.

Located in the heart of the Louvre, in the Denon wing, this gallery, which will retain the museography of architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, will now showcase nearly 130 major works from the collections of the Musée du Quai Branly, the Louvre Museum and several loans from the Guimet Museum of Asian Arts.

Inaugurated in April 2000, the Pavillon des Sessions is located south of the Louvre Palace, between the Flore wing and the Denon wing, and since its opening has exhibited 104 sculptural masterpieces from around the world in the heart of one of the world's largest museums of classical fine arts.

The Pavillon des Sessions is closed to the public from 21 October 2024 until autumn 2025.

The interior architecture for the 1,200 m² area was designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte, and enables visitors to enter without being immediately aware if its special nature. With its pure lines and uncluttered use of space, with minimal partitioning, bathed in subdued light by silver-plated bronze mesh screens, it is at once modern and faithful to the Louvre's original architectural principles that entail exhibiting its works of art to maximum effect.