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Some of the most famous pieces housed in the Louvre Museum include The Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.

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What is the name of Frances most famous museum?

France's most famous museum is the Louvre, which houses lots of artworks and cultural pieces. Its most famous is The Mona Lisa.


How many pieces of art are located in the louvre museum?

Over 2 million


Which is the largest museum?

The Louvre museum is the largest in the world and the Smithsonian is the largest in the United states. Louvre, Located in Paris, France, the Louvre displays over 35,000 pieces of art. The museum owns a much larger collection but most of the pieces are kept in storage. Periodically, the museum rotates its collection. The museum has been open since 1793, although the building itself dates back to medieval times when it was a military fortification. In terms of area in a single location, the Louvre in Paris is by far the largest single-location museum and gardens complex in the world. It is surpassed in the size of collection (~1 million at the Louvre) by The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia (~3 million pieces); both of them are dwarfed by the collection of the Smithsonian Institution of the United States (~136 million pieces) and the British Museum (160 million piece, but that total includes the books of the British Library).


What city does the art museum called the lourve?

The Louvre is an art museum located in Paris. It was founded in 1793. There are almost 35 thousand pieces on display.


Where is the Louvre museum and what is its most popular piece?

the Louvre is the world's most visited museum; it is located in the center of Paris, France. The best-known pieces of art are the Mona Lisa by Da Vinci and the sculpture of the Venus de Milo.


What city in Europe is none for its arts?

Paris especially because that is where the famous Louvre museum is located. In this museum, there are famous art pieces such as The Mona Lisa by Da Vinci, and the David Sculpture by Michaelangelo. This museum is also full of many Egyptian antiquities, Near Eastern Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art, as well as Islamic art.


When was le musse du louvre converted into a museum?

from 1750 to 1785 there was a display of the royal painting collections. French revolutionaries confiscated the pieces of art belonging to the royals and turned the Louvre in a museum which was inaugurated in 1793, a year after the monarchy was abolished.


How much art is in the Louvre?

The Musée du Louvre contains more than 380,000 objects and displays 35,000 works of art in eight curatorial departments


What is the main attraction in le louvre?

The Louvre is possibly the best-known art museum in the world - because it stocks some of the world's most famous art. It is impossible to say what the "main attraction", because it holds literally thousands of pieces, most of which would be seen as worthwhile. That being said, the artwork in the Louvre that would be the most familiar to most people would be the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da Vinci.


Is the louvre an art museum?

In terms of floor space (square ft/m), no.That said, it is the most visited annually (some 8,880,000 people).The largest art museum in the world is the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC (aka the Met). The single building is *over* 2,000,000 million square feet (more than 185,806.08 square meters). It is also the 2nd most visited annually with 6,004,254 visitors.


What is the comparison between a art museum with the natural history museum?

Both types of museums will have a collection of pieces, and will display some of these pieces. In an art museum these pieces are works of art. In a natural history museum these pieces are historical artifacts.


What famous gem was owned by JP Morgan?

He didn't own any specific gem: by the beginning of the 1900s he had assembled the most important gem collection in America, containing over 1000 pieces.