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This is the entrance to the Louvre, one of if not the most famous museums in the world. Located on the seine river, it was originally contstructed as a small square fortress by Phillippe Auguste in 1190, ramparts were later added by Etienne Marcel. When Charles V moved in, he built a library for himself. Once Charles V "moved on", Pierre Lescot started a rebuilding program in 1550 for Francois I to make a permanant residence for him. This was made in the Renaissance style, which was new at the time. Catherine Medici and Henry II basically just continued that project. In 1862, the court moved to Versailles without it ever being considered a major palace. Once Louis XIV shoed up, he finished it in classic style in the 1600's. Then, in 1793, after the revolution, it officially became a "people's Museum". Along comes Napoleon III, and he decides to add some more wings that face the Tulleries Garden, in the 1860's, in addition to the Carrousel, the smallest of the three arches of Triumph. During the Paris Commune of 1871, parts of the Louvre were partially burned. Maillot, a not too famous guy added statues that dot the gardens between the galleries. Now comes the part in history when the entrance to the Louvre is built, in 1989. This was "le grand louvre project" of President Francois Mitterand. Designed by the American architect I.M. Pei, the new entrance has added 80% of gallery space to the Louvre.
But, the entrance is not just a door, it is also best and largest shopping centers in Paris, it is also one of the few underground shopping centers. The Tulleries gardens have also become one of Paris's most beautiful gardens.

The oriental gallery has two floors holding three main sections. It starts with the mamluks, which contains islamic art from the 13th century to early the 16th. Moving two the ground floor, there's the Mesopotamian and Asyrian section, and finally the Persion part.

The sculptures gallery has a late gothic era northern europe exhibit on the entresol level, which is the floor under the ground floor. Moving up we have two Michelangelo galleries along with five french galleries from the puget courtyard to Phillipes Pot Room.

Moving on now to the Egyptian antiguities area, we have three floors to work with now, from entresol up. Moving down this time, we have the end up the pharoanic era of egypt. As we move down we move backwards in time, coming to Cleopatra's gallery, on down until we reach coptic Egypt- the early days of Egypt as we know it.

Taking a break from history, we move to the "objects d'art". This one floor gallery holds a middle ages sugar room, a renaissance larcade room, two apollo galleries and who can forget, napoleon's apartments. There's both a dining room and a grand salon.

Back to our time machine, we now take a trip to the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman galleries. There's roman bronzes and precious objects, plus one of their daru galleries. The greek gallery includes that sculpture basically everybody knows, Venus de Milo. There is also an Athena room, along with the winged victory of Samothrace and the Julius-Claudius era.

Now, last, but most definitely not least, the paintings gallery. This gallery has many of the world's best known paintings, like the Mona Lisa, works by Rembrandt, Carlos de Beistegui collections, and so many others. There's paintings from France, the Netherlands, Holland, and Italy.

This has been a mind's eye tour by Mike Breckenfelder.  Thank you.