Louvre Museum Ticket

The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, is one of the world’s largest and most visited museums, housing an unparalleled collection of over 550,000 works of art and artifacts from human history, spanning from prehistoric times to the 21st century. Founded in the 12th century as a fortress and converted into a royal palace in the 16th century, Louvre became a museum in 1793 after the French Revolution. Its impressive collections, including famous works such as the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and the Raft of the Medusa, are showcased across eight curatorial departments, with highlights including Egyptian antiquities, ancient Greek and Roman art, and an impressive collection of European paintings from the 13th to the 20th centuries. The museum’s sleek glass pyramidal entrance, added in the 1980s, provides a striking contrast to the building’s rich historical architecture, attracting over 10 million visitors each year.