Louvre Museum

The Louvre is one of the largest museums in the world and the largest museum in Paris and its area of 210,000 m2 including 60,600 for the exhibitions. Located in the heart of the city, between the right bank of the Seine and the rue de Rivoli, in the first district, the building is a former royal palace, the Louvre. The equestrian statue of Louis XIV constitutes the starting point of the historic axis, but the palace is not aligned on this axis. The Louvre has a long history of artistic and historic conservation of France from the Capetian kings today.

Universal museum, the Louvre includes a chronology and a wide geographical area, from antiquity to 1848, Western Europe to Iran, through Greece, Egypt and the Middle East. It consists of eight departments: Oriental Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Islamic Art, Sculpture, Works of Art, Paintings, Graphic Arts and has 35,000 works in 60,600 m2 of rooms. Works in the museum are varied in nature: paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, archaeological and art among others. Among the most famous pieces of the museum are the Code of Hammurabi, the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, and Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix. The Louvre is the most visited museum in the world, with 8.5 million visitors in 2010.

In Paris, several national museums are complementary collections of the Louvre Museum.