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Louvre Museum

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Also known as The Louvre, Musée du Louvre, Musée Napoléon, Musée national du Louvre, France. Musée du Louvre Paris, The Louvre Museum, Musee du Louvre, Musee Napoleon

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France.

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The Louvre Museum is an active archive located in Paris, France. It was established in 1793 and officially opened on August 10, 1793. The institution maintains an official website at louvre.fr and provides an online catalog at collections.louvre.fr. It also operates an official shop at boutique.louvre.fr.

The museum holds a collection size of 460,000 items and covers an area of 210,000 square meters. It is situated at postal code 75001, with an elevation of 44 meters above sea level. Annual visitors number 10,200,000. The organization has 5,200,000 social media followers. Contact information includes the phone number +33-1-40-20-53-17 and the email address [email protected].

Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Museum.name
Musée du Louvre
Museum.image
File:Louvre Museum Wikimedia Commons.jpg
Museum.caption
The Louvre Museum and pyramid on the Cour Napoléon
Museum.location
Musée du Louvre, 75001, Paris, France
Museum.type
Art museum and historic site
Museum.collection_size
615,797 in 2019 (35,000 on display)
Museum.visitors
9.0 million (Fiscal Year 2025) Ranked 1st nationally Ranked 1st globally
Museum.director
Christophe Leribault
Museum.curator
Marie-Laure de Rochebrune
Museum.publictransit
Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre Louvre–Rivoli
Museum.mapframe zoom
15

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Research organization · ROR

Type
Archive
Founded
1793
Location
Paris, France
Status
Active
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GRID grid.500473.5 · ISNI 0000 0001 2260 177X

Described at

Nouvelle numérotation des salles | Musée du Louvre | Paris

web.archive.org →

Le musée du Louvre est ouvert tous les jours sauf le mardi. Le port du masque est obligatoire. Retrouvez sur cette page toutes les informations sur les conditions de visite de cet été.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
production company
Named after
Louvre Palace
Official name
Louvre Museum
Country
France
Located in
Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois
Area
210000
Elevation
44
Body of water
Seine
Founded by
Napoleon
Owned by
Ministry of Culture of France
Main subject
art
Location
Louvre Palace
Official website
www.louvre.fr/en
Image
Cour Napoléon at night - Louvre.jpg
Motto
Évadez-vous au Louvre
Significant event
2025 Louvre heist
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native label
Musée du Louvre
inception
1793-08-10
director / manager
Laurence des Cars
postal code
75001
Commons category
Musée du Louvre
Commons Institution page
Louvre
topic's main category
Category:Louvre
located on street
rue de Rivoli
collection or exhibition size
38000
phone number
+33-1-40-20-50-50
Commons gallery
Musée du Louvre
date of official opening
1793-08-10
described at URL
www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
fax number
+33-1-40-20-54-52
email address
mailto:[email protected]
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
sponsor
Stephen A. Schwarzman
fee
0
closed on
Tuesday
social media followers
5200000
has facility
cloakroom
online catalog URL
collections.louvre.fr/en
different from
Louvre Abu Dhabi
architect
I. M. Pei
Wi-Fi access
gratis
topic has template
Q10991285
FAQ URL
www.louvre.fr/visiter/faq
visitors per year
2825000
P12749
Q138790
official shop URL
boutique.louvre.fr
contact page URL
www.louvre.fr/contacts
official jobs URL
www.louvre.fr/offres-d-emploi
impressum URL
www.louvre.fr/mentions-legales
privacy policy URL
www.louvre.fr/politique-de-protection-des-donnees-personnelles
press information URL
presse.louvre.fr
category of associated people
Category:People associated with the Louvre
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Encyclopedic overview

39 sections
Contents
  • Location and visiting
  • History
  • Before the museum
  • Revolutionary opening
  • {{anchor|Musée Napoléon|Napoleon I}}Napoleonic era
  • From 1815 to 1852
  • Second Empire
  • From 1870 to 1981
  • Grand Louvre
  • 21st century
  • Collections
  • Egyptian antiquities
  • Near Eastern antiquities
  • Greek, Etruscan, and Roman
  • Islamic art
  • Sculptures
  • Decorative arts
  • Painting
  • Prints and drawings
  • Gallery of the Five Continents
  • Management, administration, partnerships
  • Archaeological research
  • Satellites and offshoots
  • Musée de Cluny (1926–1977)
  • Musée du Jeu de Paume (1947–1986)
  • Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon (since 1976)
  • Gypsothèque du Louvre (since 2001)
  • Musée Delacroix (since 2004)
  • Louvre-Lens (since 2012)
  • Louvre Abu Dhabi (since 2017)
  • Controversies
  • Napoleonic looting
  • Nazi looting
  • Construction of Louvre Abu Dhabi
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Works cited
  • External links

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France.

The Louvre, a former royal palace, is known for its collection of celebrated paintings collected by the French kings, including the Mona Lisa of Leonardo Da Vinci. The museum received 9 million visitors in FY-2025 and is regularly ranked as the most visited art museum not only in France, but in the world. Twenty-seven percent of the visitors in 2012 were French, while 73 percent were from other countries.

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