Musée du Louvre (Paris) - A Virtual Tour through the Louvre Museum in Paris, France The Louvre or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre) is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square meters (652,300 square feet). The Louvre is the world's most visited museum, and received more than 9.7 million visitors in 2012. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built as a fortress in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years. During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum to display the nation's masterpieces. The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801. The collection was increased under Napoleon and the museum renamed the Musée Napoléon, but after Napoleon's abdication many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through donations and gifts since the Third Republic. As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings. The High Renaissance collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Virgin and Child with St. Anne, St. John the Baptist, and Madonna of the Rocks. Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre More information; http://www.louvre.fr/en

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1. So bad it now became a muslim city
2. You can probably spend a week in the Louvre...it's MASSIVE but wonderful
3. you are one annoying bastard
4. Hey, wonderful videos around the world !
   I would like to know if I can use some of those footages at the begining of this one.
   I'm working for a school and the video is about students who are explaining arts to visitors. I've got interiors but I'm lacking some rushes about the building.
   Those rushes about the exterior of the Louvre could fit perfectly.
   The video will also be uploaded in youtube, it's to show to people what you can do in the school in the art section.
   Thank you, have a nice day.
5. Nice tits on that statue at 1:46
6. I actually have seen Mona Lisa and have taken a selfie with her portrait when I went to louvre and have seen 90 of these statues and pictures
7. fantastic
8. I see Tom hanks running in the far left corner! The albino opus dei dude is chasing him!
9. This is such a lovely video! What a wonderful resource and teaching tool. The music is beautiful and allows you to explore wherever your mind takes you on this virtual tour.
10. it's beautiful.
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12. Cool! I bet you had a good time! I want to go there so I can see the Mona Lisa and Eiffel Tower
13. Well, this is all the information I need. Thanks for the video!
    packs duffel bag
14. Amo esse lugar.
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16. I can't comprehend what it would be like to carve those sculptures from stone blocks.  http://atsuroaudio.org/track/hutch
17. Music is from Kevin MacLeod; Passing Time;
    https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary_download?vid=1dfe39320a7d046c
18. 謝謝
19. Musee du Louvre
    地址：34 、36 Quai du Louvre 75001 Paris
    電話：01 40 20 50 50、01 40 20 51 51、01 40 20 53 17
    地鐵：1線 Palais Royal Musee du Louvre或 Louvre Rivoli站
    　　　7線Palais Royal Musee du Louvre站
    開館時間：9：00~18：00
    　　　　星期一：只有Richelieu館延長22：00
    　　　　星期三：全館延長至22：00
    休館時間：每星期二
    　（每月第一星期日免費）
    參觀時間：約3小時
    網址：羅浮宮博物館 www.louvre.fr 
    
    前言
    人類歷史文明雖然隨著各個時代的興衰起伏而出現或消失，但它卻不斷以其特有的的式方轉移其領導地位。所以當西方文明仍處於原始狀態時中國、印度、埃及、巴比倫、波斯等亞非文明，及南美洲的印加文明都已在人類文明史上，歷經千年的盛衰消長。而在人類文明的進化中，我們可以看到每個時代，每個區域都以自己的人類意象投射在其生活的藝術裡。今天羅浮宮博物館歷代以來的豐富典藏，正是人類文明進化過程一套最為完整的展現。
    羅浮宮和羅浮宮博物館的由來：
    巴黎的羅浮宮是腓力 奧古斯都於1180年為了防禦諾曼人和英國人而在塞納河畔所建的一座城堡，也就是當今的羅浮宮方型庭院。到了十四世紀時查理五世定居於此(1364至1380年)，且將其作為自己的皇宮並增建圍牆及興建著名的圖書室。但查理五世去世後直到1545年法蘭西斯一世才委派名建築師皮耶 萊斯科(Pierre Lescot)進行改建及擴建工程，並由雕塑家瓊 顧炯(Jean Goujon)負責裝潢，使宮殿成為具半哥德式、半文藝復興式的風格。亨利二世時依然由萊斯科繼續指揮宮殿擴建工程。當亨利二世意外身亡去世後，其遺孀凱薩琳於1563年授命建築師飛利伯爾 羅洛姆(Philibert de l'Orme)於舊城牆上精心建造杜樂麗(Tuileries)宮。不久因羅洛姆去世，使得工程一度中斷。到了1594年亨利四世增建了花神樓(Pavillon de Flore)，並將杜樂麗宮和羅浮宮連接起來，至此羅浮宮終告竣工。
    1643年起羅浮宮又在路易十三時進行方型庭院的擴建工程，到了路易十四才完成。由於它是由大量雕塑裝飾而成，因此成為羅浮宮建築群中最為引人注目的建築物，並於1667年完成了庫路 貝羅爾特(Claude Perrault)柱廊。 1682年路易十四竟把法國的政權遷移至巴黎近郊的凡爾賽宮，那金碧輝煌的羅浮宮竟然「吉屋出租」，到了1750年人們甚至於曾經有過拆除羅浮宮的念頭。在法國社會大革命期間也就是說1789年10月6日，在巴黎人民的請願下王室被迫重返羅浮宮。但是不到三年王室於1791年6月20日全部逃亡，羅浮宮被人民所佔領。
    歷經法國社會大革命的動盪歲月，直到1800年拿破崙的時代才又重新整修羅浮宮，在兩位名建築師培西耶(Percier)和楓丹(Fontaine)的大力擘畫下完成方型庭院，並整修內部宮殿，進而開始建造在新街李佛里(Rivoli)路邊的北翼畫廊。到1852年拿破崙三世才委派維斯康提(Visconti)將羅浮宮整體規劃成為一座龐大的皇宮及博物館。並於1857年8月14日開幕，這才算整體整修建設完成。但羅浮宮於1871年5月被暴徒縱火燒燬了杜樂麗宮，直到第三共和國時才委派拉佛爾(Lefuel)修復羅浮宮南北兩翼的花神樓及馬森館(Marson) 使羅浮宮成為今日的景觀。
    大羅浮宮：
    由於羅浮宮博物館典藏豐富，一直缺乏足夠的展示空間，加上老羅浮宮博物館的出入口太小和參觀路線過於複雜宛如迷宮，並且每年有六七百萬的朝聖者們和一些停車及開放空間等等問題。於此前總統密特朗於1981年決定進行大羅浮宮計劃，將花神樓的財政部遷移。同年接受華籍國際著名建築師貝律銘之建設方案，開始整修工程。終於1989年法國社會大革命兩百週年紀念時大羅浮宮開幕，先在拿破崙三世庭院中央新建了一座壯觀的大玻璃金字塔，成為今後大羅浮宮的標誌及主要出入口和接待空間：至於左右各自一座小的透明金字塔，直到1993年左側的黎希留(Richelieu)展覽館才完成並正式開放。而整個整建大羅浮宮計畫一直到1997年度才全部完成（包括杜樂麗花園及地下停車場等等）。
    大羅浮宮經過19年的規劃重建後，擴大了近3萬平方公尺的展覽空間。與大羅浮宮同樣具有象徵意義的是出入羅浮宮博物館的玻璃金字塔。它既不是件建築物、也不是個前景，它完全保留了羅浮宮博物館的景觀，就這樣成為大羅浮宮的象徵物。這座玻璃金字塔高21.6公尺、寬35公尺，總重達180噸（玻璃86噸及不鏽鋼94噸），並成為巴黎的觀光景點和二十世紀最具代表性的建築物，每當華燈初上時金光閃爍宛如花都一顆光彩燦爛的鑽石。
    大羅浮宮博物館的典藏來源：
    經查理五世豐富的圖書館收藏，法蘭西斯一世開始在他的皇宮裡典藏各種藝術品，其中包括十幾幅文藝復興大師的作品（提香、拉斐爾及達文西等等）及一些義大利的古董。到路易十三時「國王的陳列室」裡有兩百多幅圖畫。當路易十四去世時皇宮裡已有2500餘幅畫作裝飾，規模相當可觀。此時羅浮宮已成為學院的繪畫及雕塑定期展覽場所。
    在路易十五時，已考慮把羅浮宮改建成為博物館，結果到1793年8月10日才由法國社會大革命運時期的國民公會正式公開羅浮宮大畫廊的收藏，這就是羅浮宮博物館的由來。從此以後，這裡的典藏不斷地增加，尤其在拿破崙一世時，羅浮宮博物館成為世界藝術品典藏最為豐富的地方。因為他不斷向那些被征服的國家搜刮藝術品。就這樣羅浮宮博物館擁有數量驚人的收藏，包括古埃及、波斯、伊朗、希臘、羅馬、歐洲等等地區的藝術品。從中古世紀到十九世紀中期所有的藝術作品包括圖畫、雕塑、素描、陶瓷、織毯、銅器、瓷器、裝飾品、家具、王室珍玩等等精品都在收藏之列。根據博物館典藏目錄記載作品數量近40萬件。
20. Thank you for sharing this video! It gives a clear idea of louver museum~
    I'm making a culture video which introduces various art museums around the world and wondering if I can use footage of your video clip for it. The completed video will be uploaded on a website where only Korean teachers can access and share teaching materials for free. The video will be only used in the classroom and I'll be very glad if I can get your permission. If you have any inquires, please contact me at yuni0808@gmail.com. Have a nice day~ :)