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The Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in , France, and the most visited museum in the world. It is located on the Right Bank of the in the city's and home to some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: art and archeology museum in Paris, France
  • Also known as: “France. Musee du Louvre Paris”, “France. Musée du Louvre Paris”, “Louvre”, “Louvre Museum”, “Musee du Louvre”, “Musée du Louvre”, “Musee Napoleon”, “Musée Napoléon”, “Musee national du Louvre”, “Musée national du Louvre”, and “The Louvre Museum”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Louvre Pyramid and Orsay Museum.

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The is a large glass-and-metal entrance way and skylight designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid is in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in , surrounded by three smaller pyramids.

Museum
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The Musée d'Orsay is a in , France, on the of the . It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. is situated 690 metres west of The Louvre.

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The is a triumphal arch in , located in the . It is an example of Neoclassical architecture in the Corinthian order. is situated 230 metres west of The Louvre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 1st arrondissement and Quartier des Halles.

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The centre of contemporary and the site of such landmarks as the Louvre and of the Tuileries and Palais-Royal, the is full of attractions for travellers of all inclinations, including some of the finest parks, museums, shops, and bars in the city.

Quarter
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Les Halles was 's central fresh food market. It last operated on 12 January 1973 and was replaced by an underground shopping centre and a park. The unpopular modernist development was demolished yet again in 2010, and replaced by the Westfield Forum des Halles, a modern built largely underground and topped by an undulating 2.5 hectare canopy.

Quarter
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is one of the four administrative quarters of the , , located around the church of the former Abbey of .

The Louvre

Latitude
48.86102° or 48° 51′ 40″ north
Longitude
2.33587° or 2° 20′ 9″ east
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V86P+C8
Geo­Names ID
2997319
Wiki­data ID
Q19675
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“The Louvre” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Louvre”
  • Albanian: “Louvra”
  • Albanian: “Louvre”
  • Albanian: “Luovra”
  • Albanian: “Luvra”
  • Albanian: “Luvre”
  • Albanian: “Luvri”
  • Albanian: “Museu i Luvrit”
  • Albanian: “Muzeu i Luvrës”
  • Albanian: “Muzeu i Luvrit”
  • Amharic: “ሉቭር ሙዚየም”
  • Arabic: “اللوفر”
  • Arabic: “لوفر”
  • Arabic: “متحف اللوفر”
  • Arabic: “هرم اللوفر الزجاجى”
  • Arabic: “هرم اللوفر الزجاجي”
  • Aragonese: “Museu d’o Louvre”
  • Armenian: “Լուվր”
  • Arpitan: “Musê du Louvro”
  • Asturian: “Muséu del Louvre”
  • Azerbaijani: “Luvr muzeyi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Luvr”
  • Balinese: “Museum Louvre”
  • Bashkir: “Лувр музейы”
  • Bashkir: “Лувр”
  • Basque: “Louvre museoa”
  • Basque: “Louvre Museoa”
  • Basque: “Louvre”
  • Basque: “Louvreko Museoa”
  • Belarusian: “Луўр”
  • Belarusian: “Люўр”
  • Belarusian: “Музей Луўр”
  • Bengali: “লুভ্‌র জাদুঘর”
  • Bengali: “লুভ্র জাদুঘর”
  • Bengali: “লুভ্র্‌ যাদুঘর”
  • Bengali: “লুভ্র্‌”
  • Bengali: “ল্যুভর জাদুঘর”
  • Bosnian: “Louvre”
  • Bosnian: “Luvr”
  • Breton: “Louvre”
  • Breton: “Mirdi al Louvre”
  • Bulgarian: “Louvre”
  • Bulgarian: “Лувър”
  • Bulgarian: “Лувъра”
  • Bulgarian: “Лувърът”
  • Burmese: “Louvre”
  • Burmese: “လိုဗာပြတိုက်”
  • Burmese: “လူဗာပြတိုက်”
  • Catalan: “Le Louvre”
  • Catalan: “Louvre”
  • Catalan: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Catalan: “Museu del Louvre”
  • Catalan: “Museu Louvre”
  • Catalan: “Palais du Louvre”
  • Catalan: “Palau del Louvre”
  • Cebuano: “Louvre”
  • Central Bikol: “Louvre”
  • Central Kurdish: “لووڤر”
  • Chechen: “ЛувгӀ”
  • Chinese: “Louvre”
  • Chinese: “卢浮宫”
  • Chinese: “卢浮宫博物馆”
  • Chinese: “法國國家博物館”
  • Chinese: “盧浮宮”
  • Chinese: “罗浮宫”
  • Chinese: “羅浮宮”
  • Chinese: “羅浮宮博物館”
  • Chuvash: “Лувр”
  • Cornish: “Louvre”
  • Croatian: “Louvre”
  • Czech: “Louvre”
  • Czech: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Czech: “Museum Louvre”
  • Czech: “Muzeum Louvre”
  • Danish: “Louvre”
  • Danish: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Dutch: “Het Louvre”
  • Dutch: “Le Louvre”
  • Dutch: “Louvre”
  • Dutch: “Louvremuseum”
  • Dutch: “Musee du Louvre”
  • Dutch: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اللوفر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اللوڤر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف اللوفر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف اللوڤر”
  • Erzya: “Louvre”
  • Erzya: “Лувр”
  • Esperanto: “La Luvro”
  • Esperanto: “Louvre”
  • Esperanto: “Luvra Muzeo”
  • Esperanto: “Luvro”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo de la Luvro”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo de Luvro”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Louvre”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Luvro”
  • Estonian: “Louvre muuseum”
  • Estonian: “Louvre”
  • Estonian: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Finnish: “Louvre”
  • Finnish: “Musée du Louvre”
  • French: “Louvre”
  • French: “musée du Louvre”
  • French: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Friulian: “Louvre”
  • Galician: “Louvre”
  • Galician: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Galician: “Museo do Louvre”
  • Georgian: “ლუვრი”
  • Georgian: “ლუვრის მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Le Louvre”
  • German: “Louvre”
  • German: “Musee du Louvre”
  • German: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Gilaki: “لۊورˇ مۊزه”
  • Greek: “Musee du Louvre”
  • Greek: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Greek: “Λούβρο”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο του Λούβρου”
  • Hawaiian: “Louvre”
  • Hebrew: “הלובר”
  • Hebrew: “לובר”
  • Hebrew: “מוזאון הלובר”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון הלובר”
  • Hindi: “लूव्र संग्रहालय”
  • Hungarian: “Louvre”
  • Hungarian: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Hungarian: “Musèe du Louvre”
  • Icelandic: “Louvre”
  • Ido: “Louvre”
  • Iloko: “Louvre”
  • Iloko: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Iloko: “Museo ti Louvre”
  • Iloko: “Ti Louvre”
  • Indonesian: “Louvre”
  • Indonesian: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Louvre”
  • Interlingua: “Louvre”
  • Interlingue: “Louvre”
  • Irish: “Louvre”
  • Irish: “Músaem Louvre”
  • Irish: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Italian: “Louvre”
  • Italian: “Musée du Louvre di Parigi”
  • Italian: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Italian: “Museo del Louvre di Parigi”
  • Italian: “Museo del Louvre”
  • Japanese: “ルーヴル美術館”
  • Japanese: “ルーブル博物館”
  • Japanese: “ルーブル美術館”
  • Javanese: “Louvre”
  • Javanese: “Museum Louvre”
  • Javanese: “Musiyum Louvre”
  • Kabyle: “Louvre”
  • Kannada: “Louvre”
  • Kannada: “ಲೂವ್ರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Luvr muzeyi”
  • Kashmiri: “لوور عجٲیِب گرٕ”
  • Kashmiri: “لوور”
  • Kazakh: “Louvre”
  • Kazakh: “Лувр”
  • Kirghiz: “Лувр”
  • Kölsch: “Louvre”
  • Komi: “Louvre”
  • Komi: “Лувр”
  • Korean: “루브르 미술관”
  • Korean: “루브르 박물관”
  • Korean: “루브르”
  • Korean: “루브르궁”
  • Korean: “루브르박물관”
  • Kurdish: “Louvre”
  • Kurdish: “Luvrê”
  • Kurdish: “Lûvrê”
  • Kurdish: “Muzeya Louvre”
  • Kurdish: “Muzeya Lûvrê”
  • Latin: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Latin: “Museum Luparense”
  • Latin: “Museum Lupariense”
  • Latvian: “Grand Louvre”
  • Latvian: “Lielā Luvra”
  • Latvian: “Luvra”
  • Latvian: “Luvras muzejs”
  • Latvian: “Luvras pils”
  • Latvian: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Ligurian: “Louvre”
  • Limburgan: “Louvre”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Museo Louvre”
  • Lithuanian: “Louvre”
  • Lithuanian: “Luvras”
  • Lojban: “Louvre”
  • Lojban: “luvr”
  • Lombard: “Louvre”
  • Lombard: “Musee del Louvre”
  • Low German: “Louvre”
  • Luxembourgish: “Louvre”
  • Luxembourgish: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Louvre”
  • Macedonian: “Лувр”
  • Macedonian: “লুভ্র্‌ জাদুঘর”
  • Malay: “Louvre”
  • Malay: “Muzium Louvre”
  • Malayalam: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Malayalam: “ലൂവ്രേ”
  • Marathi: “लूव्र संग्रहालय”
  • Marathi: “लूव्र”
  • Mazanderani: “لوور موزه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Louvre”
  • Mingrelian: “ლუვრი”
  • Mongolian: “Лувpын музей”
  • Mongolian: “Лувр”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “متحف اللوڤر”
  • Nauru: “Louvre”
  • Neapolitan: “Louvre”
  • Nepali: “Louvre”
  • Nepali: “लुभ्र दरवार”
  • Nepali: “लुभ्र”
  • Northern Sami: “Louvre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Louvre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Musée Napoléon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Musée national du Louvre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Louvre”
  • Norwegian: “Louvre”
  • Novial: “Louvre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lovre”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܝܬ ܥܬܩܐ ܕܠܘܒܪ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܠܘܒܪ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Louvre”
  • Ossetian: “Louvre”
  • Ossetian: “Лувр”
  • Paiwan: “louvre a umaq”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੂਵਰ ਅਜਾਇਬਘਰ”
  • Persian: “کاخ لوور”
  • Persian: “لوور”
  • Persian: “موزه لوور”
  • Persian: “موزهٔ لوور”
  • Persian: “موزۀ لوور”
  • Persian: “موزیم لوور”
  • Piemontese: “Louvre”
  • Piemontese: “Musé dël Louvre”
  • Polish: “Louvre”
  • Polish: “Luwr”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Luwru”
  • Polish: “muzeum w Luwrze”
  • Portuguese: “Louvre”
  • Portuguese: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Portuguese: “Museu do Louvre”
  • Pushto: “لور”
  • Pushto: “لوور لرغونتون”
  • Pushto: “لوور موزيم”
  • Pushto: “لوور”
  • Quechua: “Louvre”
  • Romanian: “Louvre”
  • Romanian: “Luvru”
  • Romanian: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul Louvre din Paris”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul Louvre”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul Luvru”
  • Romanian: “Palatul Luvru”
  • Russia Buriat: “Лувр”
  • Russian: “Лувр”
  • Russian: “Луврский музей”
  • Rusyn: “Лувр”
  • Sardinian: “Louvre”
  • Scots: “Louvre Museum”
  • Scots: “Louvre”
  • Scots: “musée du Louvre”
  • Scots: “The Louvre”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Louvre”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Serbian: “Luvr”
  • Serbian: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Serbian: “Лувр”
  • Serbian: “Музеј Лувр”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Louvre”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Luvr”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Musee du Louvre”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Muzej Louvre”
  • Sicilian: “Le Louvre”
  • Sicilian: “Louvre”
  • Silesian: “Luwr”
  • Sinhala: “ලූර් කෞතුකාගාරය”
  • Slovak: “Louvre”
  • Slovak: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Slovak: “Múzeum Louvre”
  • Slovak: “Múzeum Louvru”
  • Slovenian: “Louvre”
  • Slovenian: “Muzej Louvre”
  • Somali: “Louvre”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوور موزه‌سی”
  • Spanish: “Le Louvre”
  • Spanish: “Louvre”
  • Spanish: “Musee du Louvre”
  • Spanish: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Spanish: “Musee National du Louvre”
  • Spanish: “Musée National du Louvre”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Louvre”
  • Spanish: “museo del Louvre”
  • Spanish: “Museo del Louvre”
  • Spanish: “Museo Louvre”
  • Spanish: “Museo Nacional del Louvre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵙⴰⵍⴰⵢ ⵏ ⵍⵍⵓⴼⵔ”
  • Sundanese: “Museum Louvre”
  • Swahili: “Louvre”
  • Swedish: “Le Louvre”
  • Swedish: “Louvregalleriet”
  • Swedish: “Louvremuseet”
  • Swedish: “Louvren”
  • Swedish: “Musee du Louvre”
  • Swiss German: “Louvre”
  • Tachelhit: “Tasnniɣt n Lufr”
  • Tagalog: “Louvre”
  • Tagalog: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Tagalog: “Museo ng Louvre”
  • Tahitian: “Louvre”
  • Tajik: “Лувр”
  • Tamil: “இலூவா அருங்காட்சியகம்”
  • Tamil: “லூவர் அருங்காட்சியகம்”
  • Tatar: “Лувр музее”
  • Telugu: “లూవర్ సంగ్రహాలయం”
  • Telugu: “లౌవ్రే మ్యూజియం”
  • Tetum: “Louvre”
  • Thai: “Louvre Museum”
  • Thai: “Louvre”
  • Thai: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์ลูฟร์”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์ลูฟวร์”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑสถานลูฟร์”
  • Thai: “ลูฟร์”
  • Tibetan: “ལུའུ་བུ་ཝི་ཕོ་བྲང་།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Louvre”
  • Turkish: “Louvre Müzesi”
  • Turkish: “Louvre”
  • Turkish: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Turkish: “Paris Louvre”
  • Turkmen: “Luwr muzeýi”
  • Ukrainian: “Лувр”
  • Urdu: “Louvre”
  • Urdu: “لوور”
  • Urdu: “لووغ”
  • Uzbek: “Louvre”
  • Uzbek: “Luvr”
  • Uzbek: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Louvre”
  • Vietnamese: “Louvre”
  • Vietnamese: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Vietnamese: “Viện bảo tàng Louvre”
  • Vlaams: “Louvre”
  • Walloon: “Louvre”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Louvre”
  • Welsh: “Amgueddfa’r Louvre”
  • Welsh: “Louvre”
  • Western Armenian: “Լուվր”
  • Western Frisian: “Louvre”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوور”
  • Wolof: “Louvre”
  • Wu Chinese: “卢浮宫”
  • Yue Chinese: “Louvre”
  • Yue Chinese: “Musée du Louvre”
  • Yue Chinese: “盧浮宮”
  • Yue Chinese: “羅浮宮博物館”
  • “Louvre”
  • “Musee d’u Louvre”
  • “Musèe d’u Louvre”
  • “Museo del Louvre”
  • “Лувр”

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