Enjoying the Paris Louvre Museum
You are a lover of art and historical objects? This museum you can visit as one of the tours in Western Europe. This museum is very popular in Paris.
Inside is the work of Leonardo Da Vinci which is very popular, namely the Mona Lisa. Besides being the largest national museum in Paris. This museum is a place that is visited by many tourists.
Located on the Rive Droite Seine, Paris' first arrondissement, the Louvre Museum is located in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre), which was originally a fortress built in the 12th century.
This museum also stores some ancient objects from the Greek, Roman and Egyptian heritages. There are also some penda heritage of Islamic civilization in the past.
In 2018, the museum received the title of "world's most visited art museum" for being visited by more than ten million people. So the Louvre Museum is called a tourist attraction in Paris besides the Eiffel tower.
The Louvre Museum is designed for researchers and art lovers, more than 482,000 collections can be viewed free of charge.
The figure includes works from the Louvre and the Musee National Eugene-Delacroix, as well as sculptures from the Tuileries and Carrousel gardens.
There are also works from the Musees Nationaux Recuperation which were discovered after World War II, and were entrusted to the Louvre Museum until the works could be returned to their rightful owners.
The collections are divided into eight curatorial departments which are: Egyptian Antiquities; Near East Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities; Islamic arts; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings.
The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. If you want more comfort, you can come in the morning, right when the museum opens. In addition, you can also choose a night on Wednesday or Friday, where the museum is open until 21:45.
A popular way to get inside the museum is through the famous glass pyramid. However, you will often be faced with a long line.
There are other less popular entry points, such as going through the underground entrance via the Carousel de Louvre, where you can go directly to the ticketing area and ticket check point. If you want to keep past the glass pyramid, you can skip it when you exit the museum.
Audio Guide Facility
There is nothing wrong with spending extra money to buy an audio guide facility when you explore this museum. The audio guide at the Louvre museum is quite sophisticated, because it also includes gps so that it can direct you to where the artwork is going or even tell you what artwork is near where you stand.
The Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da Vinci, is the most popular painting in the museum. In front of the painting, there are usually dozens of people who gather to take photos. However, don't just come to the Louvre Museum for the Mona Lisa, because there are many other works of art for you to enjoy.
There are Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the ancient Greek Venus de Milo, Jacques-Louis David's Coronation of Napoleon, Raft of the Medusa, and thousands of other works of art.
