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 ...

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

President Macron’s pledge to rescue “jewel of the nation” meets scepticism and derision amid the country's fiscal squeeze ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...