Musée du Louvre
#1🖼️ Art & EncyclopedicParis, France

Musée du Louvre

The world's most-visited museum

About the museum

The Louvre is the world's largest and most-visited art museum, housed in a former 12th-century royal fortress on the Right Bank of the Seine. Its 35,000+ works span 9,000 years of human creativity, from ancient Mesopotamia to mid-19th-century European painting.

Must-see highlights

  • Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci)
  • Venus de Milo
  • Winged Victory of Samothrace
  • Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix)
  • Code of Hammurabi
  • Egyptian Antiquities wing

Recognition

🏆 TripAdvisor #1🏆 AECOM #1 attendance

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