Louvren in Paris

Louvren is the museum, which is located in center of the Paris, France. It is the famous museum and art gallery in the world. Previously it was used as royal palace and it holds few of the famous antiques and arts like as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Madonna of the Rocks, Jacques Louis David's Oath of the Horatii, Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and Alexandros of Antioch's Venus de Milo.

After the French Revolution the Royal Palace of Louvre collection has been opened as a Museum named as “"Muséum central des Arts" in 1793. France's victorious revolutionary armies started increasing the numbers of arts collection from 1794. In July 1798 the master piece collection of this museum marble statue of “Laocoon and his sons” has been added to this museum. Now it is moved to Vatican Muesum in Rome. The collections shrank again when almost all wartime acquisitions had to be returned after Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo in 1815.

The first royal "Castle of the Louvre" was founded in the western edge of Paris by Philip Augustus in 1190. In 1535 the old building of Louvren building were demolished and the new building constructions was begun on the same year. The new age design of architecture has been introduced by the architect “Pierre Lescot”. King Henry IV added the Grande Galerie. Henry IV, a promoter of the arts, invited hundreds of artists and craftsmen to live and work on the building's lower floors. This huge addition was built along the bank of the River Seine and at the time was the longest edifice of its kind in the world. Louis XIII (1610–1643) completed the Denon Wing, which had been started by Catherine Medici in 1560. Today it has been renovated, as a part of the Grand Louvre Renovation Programme. The Richelieu Wing was also built by Louis XIII. It was part of the Ministry of Economy of France, which took up most of the north wing of the palace. The Ministry was moved and the wing was renovated and turned into magnificent galleries which were inaugurated in 1993, the 200th anniversary of parts of the building first being opened to the public as a museum on November 8, 1793 during the French Revolution.
The central courtyard of the museum, on the axis of the Champs-Élysées, is occupied by the Louvre Pyramid, built in 1989, which serves as the main entrance to the museum.
The Louvre Pyramid is a glass pyramid commissioned by then French president François Mitterrand, designed by I. M. Pei and was inaugurated in 1989. This was the first renovation of the Grand Louvre Project. The Carre Gallery, where the Mona Lisa was exhibited, was also renovated. The pyramid covers the Louvre entresol and forms part of the new entrance into the museum.
Since many of the works in the Louvre are viewed only in distinct departments — for example, French Painting, Near Eastern Art or Sculpture — established some 200 years ago.