Paris, France,

The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) is a historic monument and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement. Nearly 35,000 objects from the 6th millennium BC to the 19th century AD are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres.
The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being confiscated church and royal property.
From the outset, the Louvre has embodied the concept of a truly "universal" institution. Universal in the scope of its collections, it is also universal in its appeal to some 6 million visitors every year: a 21st-century museum rooted in 200 years of innovation.

Website: www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp

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Ancient Cultures & Civilizations Antiquities Art Art Galleries Art Sources Byzantine Art Byzantine History Ceramics Classical Studies Decorative Art Drawing & Painting Egypt Egyptian History Egyptian Studies France French History Greek History Hellenistic Art Islamic Art Mesopotamian Studies Michelangelo Museums Near Eastern Studies Painting/Fine Arts Paintings Prints Religion & Arts Roman History Sculpture