One of the world's largest museums and the most visited art museum in the world, the Louvre contains over 100,000 art objects from prehistory up to the 19th century. Housed inside the stunning 12th century Louvre palace which was once the palace of the Sun King , Louis XIV, the museum has been here since 1793.
The glass Louvre Pyramid was inaugurated in 1889 and is the main entrance to the museum. Inside the beautiful rooms of the palace you'll find 35,000 works of fine art by the European masters including Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, and the Raft of the Medusa, as well as incredible collections of Egyptian, near Eastern, Greek, Estrucan and Roman antiquities.
