Musée du Louvre
The Louvre, nestled within the magnificent Palais du Louvre in Paris's 1er arrondissement, stands as France's premier national museum—and the world's largest art museum by far. Its nine departments showcase Western art spanning the Middle Ages through 1848, complemented by treasures from the ancient civilizations—Oriental, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman—that inspired European culture, alongside sublime works of early Christian and Islamic art. Sprawling across 72,735 square meters of galleries and halls, it outpaces Russia's Hermitage (66,842 m²) and China's National Museum (65,000 m²).
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Nearby
- château de Versailles — 17.0 km away
- Bastille — 2.6 km away
- Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou — 1.2 km away
- palais des Tuileries — 0.4 km away
- palais du Luxembourg — 1.4 km away