le musee du louvre

Address: 75001 Paris, France

Established: 1792

One of the world's top art museum, the Louvre is the most visited with 9.2 million visitors every year.

Housed in the former Palace of the French Kings, the Louvre displays the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci and many other first class paintings from Italy, France, Flanders, Netherlands and England.The Louvre, which is along the banks of the Seine River in Paris, is the world's largest museum and one of the most well-known museums in the world.The Louvre's permanent art collection spans a massive space nearly 15 acres. Within the museum, visitors will find 35,000 works of art divided into eight departments: the Near Eastern Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Islamic Art, Sculptures, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Prints and Drawings.