The French Louvre Museum has launched an online platform that showcases all of the museum’s exhibits. More than 480,000 works of art can be viewed online for free. The site […]
A Painting That Was Stolen for Two Years and Is Back
On the morning of 21 August 1911, a handyman named Vincenzo Peruggia walked out of the Louvre carrying the Mona Lisa under his white coat. He kept her in a […]
New 2026 Exhibitions You Should Definitely See
The Louvre plans three major shows for 2026 that will change entire rooms for months. First comes Byzantium and the West, opening in March. Over three hundred objects will travel […]
Why the Louvre Pyramid Is Still Controversial
When François Mitterrand unveiled I. M. Pei’s glass pyramid in 1989, Paris reacted as if someone had parked a spaceship in the courtyard of its oldest palace. Thirty-six years later, […]
The Louvre sets a record and becomes the most visited museum in the world
In 2018, the museum was visited by more than 10 million tourists. The Louvre Museum in Paris welcomed 10.2 million tourists in 2018, the highest number in the world. The […]
Napoleon’s Trophies That Remained in the Louvre Forever
When Napoleon marched across Europe, art followed his armies home. By 1810 the Louvre had become the largest museum on earth, renamed Musée Napoléon for good measure. Most loot went […]