LOUVRE MUSEUM Luis Vazquez Period 6 Mr. Lim 1/15/15

WHEN WAS THE LOUVRE BUILT?  On August 10, 1793, the Musée du Louvre, located on Paris’ Right Bank, opened its doors to the public. For more than 600 years, the Louvre had been a symbol of the wealth, power and decadence of the French monarchy, and the confiscation and reconstituting of what had been a royal palace into a national museum was seen as a grand cultural gesture embodying the egalitarian values of the recent French Revolution

 Today it is one of the world’s largest museums (with 70,000 pieces of art spread across more than 650,000 square feet of gallery space) and the most visited (it takes 2,000 employees to maintain the museum and its artwork for the Louvre’s 8.8 million annual visitors). As the world- famous museum turns 220 years old, here are some surprising facts about its long history. ART WORKS

REFLECTION  I chose this museum because is one of the biggest and famous museum in the world. I chose this museum because the famous painting “ MONA LISA”.

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