Abu Dhabi: the very best art and culture in the UAE capital

Abu Dhabi is hoping to attract a new type of visitor who appreciates fine art, history, and maybe a little falconry

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By the time you read this, the world’s most expensive painting might be residing in the world’s most expensive museum. Or it might not. Nobody really seems to know, which is a bit of a worry when said painting is Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, which sold at auction in New York last year for the princely sum of $450 million (£351 million).

Nearly a month afterwards, the buyer was revealed to be Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism. The idea was for it to be unveiled with great pomp in its own outpost of the prestigious Louvre museum this November, to celebrate the anniversary of its opening in 2017. But clearly plans have stalled.

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