page_title: Musée du Louvre
section_title: History of the Louvre
hierarchical_section_title: Musée du Louvre / History of the Louvre
caption_attribution_description: Louvre Museum &#160;&#160;&#160; (Inventory)Native nameMusée du LouvreParent institutionÉtablissement public du musée du Louvre&#160;LocationParisCoordinates48°&#160;51′&#160;37.42″&#160;N, 2°&#160;20′&#160;15.36″&#160;E Established1793&#160;Web pagewww.louvre.frAuthority control : Q19675 VIAF:&#8201;257711507 ISNI:&#8201;0000 0001 2260 177X ULAN:&#8201;500125189 LCCN:&#8201;n80020283 NLA:&#8201;35912436 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q19675 Deutsch: Innenhof mit Pyramide. Dieses Bild ist ein Panorama von Nähten drei Bilder mit Hugin gemacht English: Courtyard of the Museum of Louvre, and its pyramid. This picture is a panorama made from stitching three pictures with Hugin Français&#160;: La cour Napoléon du Musée du Louvre, et sa pyramide, au coucher de soleil. Ce panorama est constitué de trois photos collées ensemble avec Hugin. 中文: 羅浮宮/卢浮宫博物館庭園及金字塔。本圖片使用了Hugin以3張照片接合而成。 Tiếng Việt: Sân Napoléon cùng kim tự tháp kính của Bảo tàng Louvre, Paris. Tấm hình được ghép bằng ba bức ảnh nhờ phần mềm Hugin. Українська: Внутрішній двір та вхід у вигляді скляної піраміди до музею Лувра. Панорама складається з трьох знімків.
context_page_description: The Louvre is a museum in Paris has millions of visitors every year because of its art collection. It is the most popular art museum in the world.
  The most famous arts in the Louvre is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Other paintings include works of Rembrandt, Giambattista Pittoni, Caravaggio, Rubens, Titian and Eugène Delacroix.
  There are also statues inside the Louvre. The most famous statues are the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
context_section_description: Philip II of France built a castle called the Castle of the Louvre. It used to be where the museum is. They used the castle as a fortress to defend Paris against the Vikings.
  Charles V, King of France turned the castle into a palace. However, Francis I, King of France, knocked it down and built a new palace.
  Henry IV, King of France added the Grande Galerie to the Louvre. The Grande Galerie is more than a quarter of a mile long and one hundred feet wide. The Grande Galerie was built along the River Seine. It was the longest building in the world.
caption: The Louvre with the Louvre Pyramid in the middle
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