The Louvre Museum
Utterly impossible to describe le Musée du Louvre in just a paragraph or two, but I'll try: The Louvre Museum is a maze of rooms housing a vast collection of artwork, sculpture and other artifacts. We spent a day there but one could spend a lifetime in quiet observation.
The Louvre Palace itself is a fine work of all, even if it was stripped of all its treasured possessions.
No Mona Lisa?
I admit I took a picture of the Mona Lisa, but the painting on display is probably a replica. Besides, this website is not intended to reproduce works of art but to describe a day of exploration. This particular page seeks to capture the spacial composition of the halls of the Louvre Museum as well as particularly poignant objects d'art with historical significance.
We wandered most of the day, even passing through some of the deepest rooms where the foundation of the old fortress castle built by Philippe II in 1190 have been excavated. In other rooms we found several sphinxes and various Babylonian artifacts like the Code of Hammurabi and these classic Mesopotamian scupltures above. For anyone interested in the history of human art, the The Louvre Museum is a exquisite panoramic experience.
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