Louvre Museum

Description

The Louvre was originally built as a fortress in 1190, but was reconstructed in the 16th century to serve as a royal palace. "Like many buildings, it was built and rebuilt over the years," said Tea Gudek Snajdar, an Amsterdam-based art historian, museum docent and a blogger at Culture Tourist. During its time as a royal residence, the Louvre saw tremendous growth. Nearly every monarch expanded it, according to History.com. Today, it covers a total area of 652,300 square feet (60,600 square meters). In 1682, Louis XIV moved the royal residence to Versailles, and the Louvre became home to various art academies, offering regular exhibitions of its members' works. During the French Revolution, Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were forcibly removed from Versailles and imprisoned in Tuilleries Palace, which was then adjacent to the Louvre, according to the They were beheaded there in 1793.

Facts about Louvre Museum

• The Louvre is the Most-Visited Art Museum in the World
• It is impossible, as a human being, to see the entire Louvre museum in just one day. In fact, even a month of exploring this space wouldn’t be enough.
• If you were to spend 30 seconds on each piece of art in the Louvre, it would take 100 consecutive days to get through them all. That is without sleep, breaks or mealtimes.
• The most famous museum in the world is fittingly home to one of the most famous paintings in the world
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is a permanent resident at the Louvre museum. This famous artwork is responsible for a large portion of the visitors that make their way to this museum each day. So much so, that the painting is now kept behind a glass barrier, and there are barricades preventing anyone from getting too close for comfort.

Details Of This Palace

1	Location		:		Musée du Louvre, 75001 Paris, France
2	Established		:		10 August 1793; 228 years ago
3	Visitors		:		2.8 million (2021)
4	Director		:		Jean-Luc Martinez
5	Type		:		Art museum and historic site
6	Collection Size		:		615,797 in 2019 (35,000 on display)

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