I am located at Musée du Louvre, Paris, which is one of the world's largest museums (60,600 square meters; not quite the largest but has the most visitors) and a historical monument. The museum in its classic baroque style is a part of the Louvre Palace complex, originally built as a fortress in the late 12th century. Louis XIV from the Palace of Versailles chose the Louvre as a place to display the royal collection in 1682. Inside, you can find around 35,000 pieces of art from prehistoric era to the 19th century. The most comonly known amongst them is defenitelly Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, also The Wistler's Mother (which you can remember from a Mr. Bean's episode), Venus the Milo, The Coronation of Napoleon and other remarkable paintings and sculptures. In 1983, a new design for the entrance was built (the Grand Louvre) as an underground lobby and modern glass pyramid structure in the courtyard. It is impossible to see all of its sights in one visit because it's so big.
other sculptures and carvings of Louvre:
interesting museum (in general) facts:
* the Museum of Death in Hollywood includes a head severed by the guillotine in France and Liberace’s stuffed cat
* the Phallological Museum in Husavik, Iceland, is the world’s only museum of penises
* the Garbage Museum in Stratford, Connecticut, closed in 2011 after 16 years exhibiting rubbish
* there is a dog collar museum at Leeds Castle in Kent
(all facts found at Express)
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