There are about two hundred museums in Paris for every taste: from traditional art collections to original exhibitions dedicated to the history of Freemasonry, perfume, playing cards or sewers. There are unique collections dedicated to science, architecture, French history and famous French people. But the most popular are, of course, the Parisian art collections.
And not only big museums with big names are interesting. Permanent exhibitions are located in different parts of Paris, which grew out of private collections. And many of them are no less remarkable and popular with tourists than the famous world-famous museums. Which museums in Paris should you pay attention to first? We provide descriptions of the most interesting and popular places.
The Louvre Museum in Paris is one of the largest, oldest and undoubtedly the most popular art museums in the world. It is visited by about 10 million tourists a year. The museum’s grandiose collection began to gather back in the Middle Ages. Since then, the Louvre has accumulated an extensive collection of paintings, graphics, sculptures, ancient artifacts, which covers the period of development of Europe, Egypt and the East from ancient times to the middle of the 19th century.
The expositions were housed in the royal palace, erected in the 16th-18th centuries. on the right bank of the Seine on the site of a medieval fortress. Moreover, only a tenth of the funds are on display, but even to carefully look at the collections exhibited on display can take several years! That is why tourist routes invariably lead to the famous La Gioconda, other paintings by da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, statues of the ancient Greek goddess of love Venus de Milo and the goddess of victory Nika of Samothrace.