Most of it is devoted to temporary exhibitions, while the basements house a very small part of the city’s Fine Arts collection. When the museum reopened in 2016, a partnership was concluded, and renewed in 2020 for five years, with the Louvre Museum, for on the one hand the co-organization of exhibitions and on the other hand for advice and training of staff. Recently, the Louvre notified the Liège museum that it did not wish to continue the partnership without specifying the reasons.
During these ten years of partnership, only three La Boverie exhibitions have been co-produced with Le Louvre, namely the inaugural exhibition “En plein air”, in 2016, “Viva Roma”, in 2018 and “Collectioneuses Rothschild” in 2023. “There should have been other exhibitions, but that didn’t happen”specifies Elisabeth Fraipont, alderman for culture in the city of Liège. “And since 2020, there has been no collaboration in consulting and training. » The alderman does not dramatize the end of this partnership. Rather, she sees it as an opportunity to give more visibility to the permanent collection. It is also not closing the door to other collaborations such as exchanges of good practices with the French museum and will therefore resume contact with them in the coming months. She also wants to take advantage of this moment to develop other collaborations, why not with countries in the South, in Spain or Italy. In the meantime, the museum is preparing for the anniversary exhibition “Behind the scenes of a collection” which will bring together, from May 29, 250 masterpieces drawn from the rich collection of Fine Arts of the City of Liège.
