The Musée du Louvre is pleased to announce the first recipients of the Majid Boustany Scholarship and the Denon Prize.

As the first winners are announced, the Musée du Louvre extends its thanks to the Majid Boustany Fund, established in 2020 within the Musée du Louvre’s Endowment Fund. The Fund finances annually the Majid Boustany Research Scholarship of €10,000 supporting doctoral or postdoctoral research, and the Denon Prize of €12,000 assisting the publication of a doctoral thesis under the supervision of the staff of Éditions du Louvre. The research scholarship and the prize are awarded for research in art history, archaeology or museum studies on a theme relevant to the Musée du Louvre, from any period or geographical area.

Léa Tichit has been selected for the Majid Boustany Research Scholarship to help her pursue her postdoctoral research project, ‘Collecting and Exhibiting Architecture at the Musée du Louvre (1793–1989)’. She also teaches at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne and Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, as well as the Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués, Toulouse.

Sarah Piram, winner of the Denon Prize, has been awarded funding to publish her doctoral thesis, ‘Heritage Awareness and Architectural Creation in Iran: Around the Figure of André Godard (1881–1965)’, produced under the supervision of Rémi Labrusse at the Université Paris Nanterre.

Award ceremony for the Denon Prize and the Majid Boustany Scholarship © Musée du Louvre - Nicolas Bousser