Musée du Louvre

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After winning a coveted international competition to design a signage system for the Musée du Louvre, CSA was faced with the daunting task of moving millions of international visitors through one of the world’s most complicated museums while respecting the contrasting architectural styles of I.M. Pei’s pyramid and the original 16th-century palace. Echoing Paris’s own arrondissement (neighborhood) system, a numbered plan was created that, when keyed to a handheld paper guide, accommodates the constant relocation of the museum’s collections.