UNITED ARAB EMIRATES // While modern-architecture fans may be content gawping at the Jean Nouvel-designed filigree dome that hovers over Abu Dhabi's new museum, it's what's inside that makes this a 21st-century cultural icon. The Louvre Abu Dhabi represents a revolution in museum curation - transcending borders, artefacts are clustered together by theme rather than specific civilisation or land. As you walk through the eras of human history from the Neolithic to today, equal billing is given to smaller, lesser-known cultures alongside pieces from well-known empires and countries. The result is a series of 12 galleries, with a collection that romps from a third millennium BC Bactrian princess statue to Ai Weiwei's Fountain of Light, which celebrate our interconnected, globalised world, highlighting the links and connections that have been forged between cultures for centuries.