Musée du Louvre France
Musée du Louvre is the museum that contains largest home of history and art in France and one of the most important museums in the world. It is located in the heart of Paris, it was previously a royal palace called 'Louvre Palace'. It includes a wide variety of works of art ( ceramics, sculptures, paintings, drawings, archaeological objects) from antiquity to the present.
The Louvre's departments cover an extensive array of historical periods and artistic genres, each represented through the museum's permanent and temporary exhibits. Among the exhibits, The Louvre holds Near Eastern and Egyptian antiquities, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities, Islamic art, sculptures and paintings as well as decorative arts, prints, and drawings. There are over 35,000 works from around the globe and throughout history. Furthermore, there are vast rooms full of paintings, sculptures and antiquities, some of the most famous pieces held by The Louvre include the Jewels of Ramesses II, the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and Winged Victory.
However, Musee du Louvre are set over 60,000 square meters, it can be fairly daunting, but guided tours and audio tours are available in English and French lasting ninety minutes and can be historically themed. Another option is to pick a period or section of the Louvre and pretend that the rest is somewhere across town to be visited at a later time.
 Address: The Louvre, Place du Carrousel, 75001 Paris, France
Phone: 01 40 20 57 60
Ticket Information:Open daily except Tuesdays, 9am-6pm (rooms begin closing at 5:30pm). Open to 10pm Wednesdays and Fridays (rooms begin closing at 9:30pm).Closed 1 January, 1 May and 25 December. Entry costs €10 (inc Musée Eugène Delacroix). From 6pm to 9:45pm, entry costs €6.Entry is free on the 1st Sunday of every month.
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