TIERS LIEU CULTUREL, HUB INDUSTRIES CRÉATIVES ET CULTURELLES, INCUBATEUR, ACCÉLERATEUR D'ENTREPRISES

Activity area: Association of professionals, Cultural engineering, Cultural engineering / cultural tourism, Cultural mediation, Museography

A true center of excellence and cultural innovation created in 2013, Louvre Lens Vallée supports the region’s transition through entrepreneurship, culture and innovation. Since its creation in 2013 LLV has supported, in incubation and acceleration, more than 100 projects.The idea is to develop a creative hub, a stone’s throw from the Louvre-Lens and the Louvre Conservation Center in Liévin, a place of experimentation of more than 2,500 m² aimed at breaking down the barriers between the artistic, academic, entrepreneurial and civic spheres around of :digitization of worksconservation, preservation of works and enhancement of heritageinnovation in mediation, in artistic crafts and in tourism.In 2019, it received the French Tech label from the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Recovery, which aims to make France one of the most dynamic countries in terms of start-up takeoff. Its ecosystem brings together more than 160 companies, partners and actors and 60 stakeholders in the French Tech Artois community.Louvre Lens Vallée is also a Fab Lab (the MuséoLab) created at the initiative of the University of Artois, a nursery and one of the 3 totem places of the Artois Innovation Park.Since 2022, it has been certified by the BPI-French Touch as a place for the dissemination and promotion of the creative and cultural industries.