“Everything is beautiful here”: when museums open up to people in precarious situations
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The Art&Food program offers vulnerable people who receive their solidarity breakfasts the opportunity to visit the Louvre, as seen here on March 19. Edouard Monfrais-Albertini / Hans Lucas for La Croix
For the past twenty years, many museums have been organizing to provide the best possible welcome to people in precarious situations. A report from the Louvre features a small group of people who benefit from solidarity breakfasts in Paris.
Keita hadn't planned to come to the Louvre that morning. The night before, with his unfortunate friends, this Malian teenager, who had arrived in France a few months earlier, slept, not very well, in a gymnasium. The day before yesterday, he was evicted from the building where he was squatting. Tonight, he doesn't really know where he'll go. In short, Keita has other priorities in life than visiting a museum.
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