Musée du Louvre

The palace Castle medieval, palaces of the France kings, museum since two centuries, the palace of the Louvre develops his architecture on more than 800 history years.

Two museum centuries Founded in 1793 by the French Republic, the museum of the Louvre constitutes, with the ashmolean Museum (1683), the museum of Dresde (1744) and the museum of the Vatican (1784), the one of the all first European museums.

The Organized collections in 8 departments, the collections of the Louvre muster of the œuvres dateing back to the birth of the big antique civilizations of the pool méditerranéen jusqu' to the western civilization of the Average top Acts to the first half of the XIXe century, asserting thus his encyclopedic vocation.

The works of the "Big Louvre" The "Big Louvre" is part of the "Big Works" define by the president of the Republic François Mitterrand, as the national new Library of France, the opera Fortress or the big arch of the Defense.

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Contact Information

Musée du Louvre
Cour Napoléon-Place du Carrousel
75001 Paris

Tel. +33140205317

http://www.louvre.fr