New photographs reveal Snøhetta's Lascaux IV Caves Museum in southern France
These photographs capture the jagged roofline of the museum that Snøhetta has designed at the Lascaux Caves in France, to frame a huge replica of some of the world's most famous prehistoric cave paintings.
Snøhetta worked with local firm Duncan Lewis and exhibition designers Casson Mann to create the tourist attraction, which opened at the end of 2016.
Finishing touches have now been completed ahead of its official launch, as shown in these photographs by Luc Boegly and Sergio Grazia.
The Lascaux IV Caves Museum aims to recreate the dark and dank experience of the Lascaux Caves, where prehistoric paintings were discovered in 1940.
The caves in France's Dordogne region remained opened to visitors until 1948 when the decision was made to close the site to preserve the fragile paintings.
Artists have recreated fragments of the paintings inside the museum, which is kept at a constant cave-like temperature.
The team used advanced 3D laser scanning and casting techniques to achieve accurate resin replicas of sections of the caves. Over a period of two years, 25 artists hand-painted 900 metres of faux cave.
They used the same pigments as those used by the prehistoric painters to recreate almost 2,000Â artworks.
"Lascaux IV offers visitors an opportunity to discover the caves in a unique way that reveals a sense of wonder and mystery, as if they, too, were the first group of adventurers to stumble upon the cave paintings," said Snøhetta, which won th...
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