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Volunteers dropped, sent to a foreign art museum (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

louvre

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'art museum' is the definition.
'louvre' can be an answer for 'museum' (thesaurus). I'm unsure of the 'art' bit.

'volunteers dropped sent to a foreign' is the wordplay.
'dropped' is a deletion indicator.
'to a foreign' indicates anagramming the letters (foreign order of the letters).
'volunteers' with 'sent' taken away is 'voluer'.
'voluer' is an anagram of 'LOUVRE'.

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(Other definitions for louvre that I've seen before include "Window slat" , "National art gallery of France, in Paris" , "Paris museum; type of window" , "Slat in door - art gallery" , "Parisian museum" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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