Musée du Louvre / Louvre Museum

Musée du Louvre / Louvre Museum is one of the largest art museums in the world, and most visited. Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistoric times until the 19th century exhibited over an area of ​​60,600 square meters (652,300 square feet). Here you will find paintings of Mona Lisa (in Paris called "la joconde"), or may be interested in the book "The da Vinci Code".

The building is used as this is the palace of the Louvre museum (Palais de Louvre) which was built in 1190 and has become the stage of completion as the building looks today in 1870. And the museum was first opened on August 10, 1793 with 537 paintings exhibition. In 2008, the collection was divided among eight curatorial departments: Antiquities of Egypt, the Near Eastern Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art: Sculpture, Decorative Arts, Paintings, Prints and Pictures.

To be able to enjoy the museum is exhibiting more than 35,000 art objects from the prehistoric period until the 19th century, you should come around at 09.00, with pay 9 euros then you will be able to immediately enjoy the beauty of this museum.