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Musee du Louvre
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Musée du Louvre |
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| Admissions |
8,50 euros |
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+33 1 40 20 53 17 |
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| Website |
www.louvre.fr |
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You could spend weeks at the Louvre but still you wouldn’t have time
to appreciate each masterpiece. The Louvre is the world’s
largest museum and contains over 30,000 works of art. Surveying
the Louvre can be exhausting but your journey through history is
also very rewarding.
Upon your arrival at the Louvre, you’ll first be amazed by
the size of the fortress in which the museum is housed. The Louvre
was first built in 1200 and later became the royal family’s
palace in 1500. The palace was finally opened as a museum in 1793.
More recently, the now familiar glass pyramids were added in the
1980’s and serve as the entrance to the museum.
The Louvre is generally very crowded and can certainly be confusing.
Your first stop should be the information desk on the ground floor.
Once you have reviewed the tour schedule, you will most likely want
to join one of the 90 minute guided tours. Roaming the Louvre with
or without the free map can be very difficult. As part of the guided
tour, you are provided with a headset so that you can hear the tour
guide despite the fact that at times you may be 30 feet from the
guide. The Louvre is divided into nine collections including the
History of the Louvre and Medieval Louvre, Oriental Antiquities,
Arts of Islam, Egyptian Antiquities, Sculptures, Objects d’art,
Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, and Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania
and the Americas. Related, the Louvre is broken up into three wings:
Richelieu, Sully, and Denon. Some of the more famous masterpieces
include the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory
of Samothrace. You also will not want to miss the Coronation of
Napoleon.
The policy of the museum is to allow photographs. However, many
sightseers may complain arguing that the flashes fade the paintings.
Time flies by at the Louvre. You’ll leave happily fulfilled
but also very tired. However, a day trip will only scratch the surface
of what can be discovered at the Louvre.
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