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Louvre Museum
Louvre Museum
Louvre Museum
Quick facts about Louvre Museum
- Name: Louvre Museum
- Location: Paris, France
- Built 1793
- Type of attraction: Architectural/Museum
- Ticket price: From $20
The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is the biggest art museum in the world, located in Paris, France, and is also a historic monument. A city’s main landmark, it is situated in the 1st district of the town on the Right Bank of the Seine.
It houses over 380,000 artifacts, while only 35,000 are offered on display.
World famous Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is displayed here and there are hundreds of visitors flocking in front of this paining every day.
Louvre is massive museum, and with its eight departments of various art collections is the place where people are coming back on every visit to Paris.
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Interesting facts about Louvre Museum
- Louvre is visited on average by 25,000 tourists a day.
- The Museum is divided into eight departments: Near Eastern Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Islamic Art, Sculptures, Decorative Arts, Paintings, and Prints and Drawings.
- There are two Louvre Museums: one in Paris and another in Abu Dhabi
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