Louvre Museum

Paris, France, France

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The Louvre Museum in Paris is one of the world’s largest and most visited art museums, housed in a former royal palace on the Right Bank of the Seine.

It holds an enormous collection of tens of thousands of artworks and antiquities, ranging from ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Mesopotamian objects to medieval, Renaissance, and early‑modern European paintings and sculptures. Among its most famous pieces are Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.

All displayed in grand galleries that mix history‑rich architecture with modern glass‐covered spaces like the iconic glass pyramid in the central courtyard. The museum serves as France’s national art museum from the Middle Ages up to about 1848 and is a central landmark of Paris, attracting millions of visitors each year.