• The Louvre Museum is the largest Art Museum in France and the most visited Museum in the World.
• On display are 35,000 works of art from a collection of over 600,000 objects covering all periods of history.

Getting There

• Nearest Metro Station: ‘Palais Royale-Musee du Louvre’, on Line 1.
• Address: Louvre Palace of the French Kings, Rue de Rivoli, 75001, Paris.
• Opening Hours:  0900-1800, Closed on Tuesdays, open on Bank Holidays except 1st Jan, 1st May and 25th Dec.
• Louvre website

 A Brief Visit into the Ancient World (3,500 BCE-600 CE) 

• • Click here for the Louvre Floor Map

 Famous Ancient Artefacts 

• Daru staircase   Ancient Greece
  • Winged Victory of Samothrace (c.190 BCE)

•  Room 227  Richlieu Wing, First Floor, Mesopotamia.
  • Code of Hammurabi (1754 BCE)

• Room 406  Daru Gallery, Ground Floor Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Borghese Collection.
  • Statue of Tiberius
  • Borghese Gladiator
  • Borghese Vase

•  Room 346  Sully Wing, First Floor, Parthenon Room.
  • Venus de Milo (c.130-100 BCE)

•  Room 348  Sully Wing, Ground Floor, Gallery of the Caryatids
  • Diana of Versailles. Roman copy (1st-2nd century CE) of a 3rd century BCE Greek sculpture.

•  Room 17  Sully Wing, Ground Floor, Greek Antiquities.
  • The Kneeling Gaul, one of three statues known as the Galatian Gauls (2nd century BCE)

•  Room 18b  Sully Wing, Ground Floor, Mediterranean World.
  • Cippi of Melqart (c. 150 BCE)

 Top Exhibits from recent History

• Room 711  Denon Wing, First Floor
  • Mona Lisa (1503-1506 CE)
    • Painting by Leonardo da Vinci of Lisa Gherardini.

• Room 348  Gallery of the Caryatids, Sully Wing, First Floor
  • Sleeping Hermaphrodite (1620 CE)

• Room 700  Denon Room, First Floor
  • The Raft of the Medusa (1819 CE)
    • Painting by Theodore Guericault.

• Room 702 Denon Wing, First Floor
  • The Coronation of Napoleon (1807 CE)
    • Painting by Jacques-Luois David.

Louvre Museum, Paris