Le Louvre Established in 1793 by French revolutionaries, the Louvre is one of the oldest and grandest museums in the world. Over the years, the original royal palace has been expanded, right on up to the addition of a controversial glass pyramid in 1989. But the appeal of the Louvre is really the vast art collection, which includes those beauties the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo, evocative paintings from El Greco to Delacroix, and ancient artifacts like an Egyptian sphinx and the Law-Codex of Hammurabi. Perusing this site is the next best thing to a ticket to Paris.
