You are about to enter the Louvre(卢浮宫) in Paris, the world’s largest and most-visited museum, drawing nearly 10 million people each year. It is a museum about education, with the main job to protect and pass on our heritage(遗产) to future people.
To help you make the most of your visit, while respecting the collections and other visitors, we invite you to discover what the Louvre is all about and how you can help us protect the collections.
The palace and the museum
At first, the Louvre was one of the main places where French kings lived for a long time. It became a museum in 1793, and now exhibits over 73,000 sq. m of Western artworks from the Middle Ages to 1848. About 35,000 artworks are on display, the oldest of which dates back over seven thousand years.
The museum collections are grouped into eight departments based on the countries and regions, such as Egyptian, Greek, Roman...
To find out more, you can do the following:
Read the letter from the director of the museum, Jean-Luc Martinez.
Learn the history of the Louvre: from 1190 to the present day, the Louvre has enjoyed a rich and eventful(充满大事的) history.
Search the museum collections on our website.
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