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Louvre) is one of the largest and most popular art

museums in the world [1] (9,260,000 visitors in 2014, the third largest in the world in terms of area: 160 which are 58 470 exposure). The museum is located in the center of Paris, on the right bank of the Seine, on Rivoli Street, in the 1st district of the capital.

In 2018, the number of visitors to the Louvre exceeded 10 million people, which is a record [3].

The museum building is an ancient royal palace (Palais du Louvre). The equestrian statue of Louis XIV marks the beginning of the so-called historic axis of Paris.

The Louvre is one of the oldest museums with a rich history of collecting art and historical relics of France, from the time of the Capetian dynasty to the present day.

In the Louvre everything was going, this museum can be called universal. His collections cover vast geographic and temporal spaces: from western Europe to Iran through Greece, Egypt and the Middle East; from antiquity to 1848. European art of the newest period - from 1848 to the present day - is represented in the Orsay Museum and the Georges Pompidou Center, and Asian art is exhibited in the Guimet Museum. The art of Africa, America and Oceania is on display at the Branly Museum.

of art from different civilizations, cultures and eras. The museum

has about 300,000 exhibits, of which only 35,000 are exhibited in the halls. Many exhibits are kept in storage, since they cannot be shown to visitors for more than three months in a row for security reasons.

The exhibits of the Louvre are divided into the following collections:

The Ancient East
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece, Etruria, Rome
Art of Islam
Sculptures
Art objects
art
Graphic art
The history of the Louvre

22, 1911, the Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo da Vinci,

which was kept in the Louvre, was stolen. In early 1914, the thief of the Gioconda, the Italian Vincenzo of the Mona Lisa. The collector who responded to the message about the sale reported it to the police. Soon, the arrested thief of the painting Leonardo later said that his motive was patriotic, he wanted to return the “Mona Lisa” to her homeland, to Italy. Another half a year "Gioconda" was exhibited in the museums of Italy, after which with special security measures

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