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 ...

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When the former New York Times Paris bureau chief first set out to write a book about the most famous and largest museum in ...

In 1364, the Louvre officially became a royal residence and it was modified ... was paused when Louis XIV moved his budget to the Palace of Versailles in the 1670’s and it solely operated ...

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 ...

This neighborhood, which lies on the eastern banks of the Seine River, is home to the enormous Musée du Louvre – a royal palace-turned-art museum, which contains more than 35,000 works of art ...

While Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia actually live at Drottningholm Palace (some 20 minutes west of Stockholm), Kungliga Slottet (Royal Palace) serves as their workplace and is the ...

The Louvre was originally built in 1546 as a palace for the French royal family. The first resident of the palace was King Francis I. Francis, a lover of art, intended the Louvre to showcase his ...