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Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) is the largest museum in the world, and arguably the most popular as well. Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” might make the Louvre a more famous than they already are.
Louvre Pyramid, Paris, France
Louvre Pyramid, built in 1989 by architect IM Pei
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Taking photos is not allowed in the Louvre, and we just have a little more than an hour to explore a large collection, which is clearly not enough. It may even take days, weeks or months to explore every bit of the museum.
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Despite the rush, we managed to see the painting Mona Lisa is famous for his creepy smile.
Inverted pyramid, the Louvre, Paris, France
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The Inverted Pyramid (La Pyramide Inversée)
In the last chapter of “The Da Vinci Code,”
The Holy Grail is buried beneath small
under the glass pyramid inverted pyramid
History [Reference] Louvre
Development of the Louvre itself is quite a story.
The Louvre was originally a fortress to protect Paris from the threat of Anglo-Norman in the 12th century. Fortress loss goal in the 15th century and was demolished to be rebuilt into a castle in the 16th century.
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The Louvre currently building began in 1546 and only finished in 1876. Palais du Louvre lost its original purpose when Louis XIV moved to Versailles in the 1670s.
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In 1692, Louis XIV ordered the creation of a gallery of antique sculpture in the Louvre, thus initiating the transformation of the Louvre from the palace to the museum. Museum Central des Arts was officially opened to the public as a museum in 1793, and collections gradually spread to take over the building, to become the Louvre we have today.
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