Two big French museums are opening satellite branches. “The Louvre is to open a $100 million satellite in the northern French city of Lens, near Lille, in 2009 and will occupy a new annex at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta for three years from 2006. Still, the Louvre’s director, Henri Loyrette, has said he considers Britain’s Tate to be a closer role model than the Guggenheim. The Tate, founded a century ago on London’s Millbank, now runs three other museums in Britain, but it has no permanent presence abroad. In contrast, while the Pompidou will inaugurate a new $68 million branch in the northeastern French city of Metz in 2007 it is also looking beyond France.”