JULY 23: Musée du Louvre

I finally have made it to the Musée du Louvre (Louvre Museum). The Louvre is the world's largest museum and a national monument of Paris. The Louvre is originally a palace that was ordered to be built by King Phillip II. King Louis XIV moved to Versialle and the Louvre became more of a place to display royal collections. In 1793 the Louvre opened as a museum. It was closed in 1796 but reopened again in 1801. The Louvre today holds nearly 35,000 pieces of history.

On my adventure around the Louvre I visited some of their most prized pieces. I visited the Mona Lisa by Léonardo da Vinci,

the Great Sphinx of Tanis,

the statue of Aphrodite,

and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.

There were dozens of sections that I couldn’t get to see everything. A few of the sections I did visited included the Islam, Greek, Roman, and Egyptian collections.

I really enjoyed those of the greek and roman as they had many statues of the olympians and of the seasons.

Winter made me think of Minnesota.