In 'Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum,' an author peels back the curtain of a ...

The Louvre is the granddaddy of public art museums. In 1793 the medieval fortress-turned-royal palace was opened to all the people by order of the French Revolutionary government. Fostered later ...

Before it was a museum, the Louvre was originally a medieval fortress and then a royal palace. King François I had chosen the Louvre as his main residence in Paris and in 1528 he decided to ...

The Louvre is one of the largest and most visited museums in the world. It contains over 600,000 works of art spanning almost 10,000 years of history, and it typically showcases around 35,000 at any ...

Though you don't necessarily have to visit the apartments to get a taste of what it was like to be a royal. Before it was a museum, the Louvre served as a royal residence for a number of French ...

Have you ever wondered what the Louvre would look like in a ... welcomed more than 5 million visitors. The palace has served as the official royal residence for the monarch of the United Kingdom ...

It is the only museum, along with the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg and the Vatican in Rome, to be housed in a royal palace. "The Louvre is one of France's calling cards," des Cars summed up a few ...

Later, it became a royal palace until King Louis XIV moved to Versailles, leaving the Louvre to become an art gallery. The mysterious disappearance of the Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa, now the Louvre ...