The Louvre Museum
Louvre Museum is located in France and it is one of the most well known museum all over the world. It is also known to be the largest museum of France’s history and art.
Located in Paris, the French capital, it is situated also between Sena and Rivoli street. The museum is designed in a historic building, a kind of a royal palace known as the Louvre Palace.
French art exhibits cover a large part of the history of France from dynasties until today.
In the Louvre museum can find exhibits from different periods of civilization, from antiquity, has a geo-cultural area, from western Europe, Greece, Egypt to the Middle East. The works are presented in a large variety of paintings, sculptures, works on ceramics, archaeological objects.
Louvre was inaugurated on 10 August 1793, and was originally a place of training for artists. During the First Empire was called Napoleon museum and was expanded by the architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, they built the wing on Rivoli. Museum has made many changes in the middle of the Napoleone yard, was built glass pyramid, built by Ieoh Ming Pei and was inaugurated on 30 March 1989.
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