Louvre
Overview
The world's most visited museum, a royal palace turned public museum during the French Revolution. Its 35,000 works span antiquity to 1848: the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Winged Victory of Samothrace, and the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside Cairo. I.M. Pei's glass pyramid entrance opened in 1989. Over 8 million people pass through each year.
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