It is hard to argue that the famous Louvre isn’t the best art museum in the world, housing probably the most famous painting in the entire world, the Mona Lisa. The Louvre Museum opened in 1793 and has been constantly added to and remodelled since. One of the biggest revamps happened in the 1980s when a vast underground space of offices, galleries, shops and restaurants was added.

Its remarkable collection of paintings represents all periods of European art up until 1848. Artwork after this period was transferred to the Musée d’Orsay in 1968.

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