Louvre Museum: Most Visited Museum in the World
Louvre Museum |
What is it?
- it's an art museum
- most visited museum in the world
- 2.7 million visitors in 2020
- largest museum in the world
- spans over 15 acres (6 hectares)
Where is it?
- it's located centrally in Paris
- the capital of France
- about a 30 minute walk from the Eiffel Tower
Statue of Louis XIV, Louvre Museum |
What's there?
- contains 380.000 objects
- displays 35.000 works of art
- 7.500 paintings
- across 8 curatorial departments
- displays the famous Mona Lisa painting
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa |