Louvre Museum

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art museum cultural institution historic monument museum tourist attraction

The Louvre Museum is one of the world’s largest and most visited art museums, renowned for its vast collection spanning thousands of years, including masterpieces like the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo.

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Observed surface forms (25)

Surface form	Occurrences
Musée du Louvre	18
Louvre	5
Louvre Palace	5
Louvre Museum administration	2
Louvre, Paris	2
Musée du Louvre, Paris	2
Gallery of the Louvre	1
Greek sculpture collection of the Louvre	1
Louvre Museum (Marly Horses copies)	1
Louvre Museum complex	1
Louvre Museum, Paris	1
Louvre complex	1
Louvre fortress in Paris	1
Louvre, Sully Wing	1
Louvre, ground floor	1
Musée Napoléon	1
Musée du Louvre (as a national museum)	1
Musée du Louvre Department of Sculptures	1
Musée du Louvre collection	1
Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre	1
Palais du Louvre	1
Sculpture collection of the Louvre	1
The Louvre Museum	1
The Louvre collection	1
Établissement public du musée du Louvre	1

Statements (86)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art museum ⓘ cultural institution ⓘ historic monument ⓘ museum ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Classical architecture ⓘ French Renaissance architecture ⓘ
buildingType	former royal palace ⓘ
collectionPeriod	prehistoric times to the 21st century ⓘ
collectionSize	hundreds of thousands of objects in total ⓘ more than 35,000 works on display ⓘ
collectionType	Egyptian antiquities ⓘ Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities ⓘ Islamic art ⓘ Near Eastern antiquities ⓘ decorative arts ⓘ paintings ⓘ prints and drawings ⓘ sculptures ⓘ
connectedTo	Axe historique of Paris ⓘ
constructionBeganAsFortressIn	late 12th century ⓘ
convertedToRoyalResidenceIn	16th century ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
established	1793 ⓘ
floorArea	approximately 72,000 square meters of exhibition space ⓘ
formerName	Louvre Museum self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Musée Napoléon
fortressBuiltUnder	Philip II of France ⓘ
foundedBy	French Revolutionary government ⓘ
hasCollection	Department of Decorative Arts ⓘ Department of Egyptian Antiquities ⓘ Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities ⓘ Department of Islamic Art ⓘ Department of Near Eastern Antiquities ⓘ Department of Paintings ⓘ Department of Prints and Drawings ⓘ Department of Sculptures ⓘ
hasEntranceStructure	glass pyramid ⓘ
hasOnlinePresence	official website of the Louvre Museum ⓘ
hasPart	Carrousel du Louvre ⓘ Cour Carrée ⓘ Cour Napoléon ⓘ Denon Wing ⓘ Louvre Pyramid ⓘ Richelieu Wing ⓘ Sully Wing ⓘ Tuileries Garden ⓘ
hasSatellite	Louvre Abu Dhabi ⓘ
languageOfSignage	English ⓘ French ⓘ
locatedIn	1st arrondissement of Paris ⓘ Paris ⓘ
locatedOn	Right Bank of the Seine ⓘ
nearbyLandmark	Champs-Élysées ⓘ surface form: Avenue des Champs-Élysées Musée d'Orsay ⓘ Place de la Concorde ⓘ Place de la Concorde ⓘ surface form: Place du Carrousel River Seine ⓘ surface form: Seine River
notableArchitect	Claude Perrault ⓘ Hector Lefuel ⓘ I. M. Pei ⓘ surface form: Ieoh Ming Pei Pierre Lescot ⓘ
notableWork	Code of Hammurabi ⓘ surface form: Code of Hammurabi stele Great Sphinx of Tanis ⓘ Liberty Leading the People ⓘ Mona Lisa ⓘ The Coronation of Napoleon ⓘ The Lacemaker ⓘ The Oath of the Horatii ⓘ The Raft of the Medusa ⓘ Venus de Milo ⓘ Winged Victory of Samothrace ⓘ
openedAsMuseumIn	1793 ⓘ
openingDate	1793-08-10 ⓘ
operatedBy	Louvre Museum self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Établissement public du musée du Louvre
ownedBy	Government of France ⓘ surface form: French state
partOf	Louvre Museum self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Palais du Louvre
previousFunction	fortress ⓘ royal residence ⓘ
publicTransit	Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre metro station ⓘ
pyramidInaugurationYear	1989 ⓘ
rank	largest art museum in the world by gallery space ⓘ one of the most visited museums in the world ⓘ
satelliteLocation	Abu Dhabi ⓘ surface form: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
UNESCOInscriptionYear	1991 ⓘ
UNESCOStatus	part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Paris, Banks of the Seine" ⓘ
visitorCount	over 10 million visitors in 2018 ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Great Sphinx of Tanis → acquisitionBy → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Tuileries Garden → adjacentTo → Louvre Museum ⓘ

École du Louvre → affiliatedWith → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

Vulci → artifactsInMuseum → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Cour Carrée → associatedWith → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Sophie Neveu → associatedWith → Louvre Museum ⓘ

École du Louvre → closelyLinkedTo → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

Bathsheba at Her Bath → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

Death of the Virgin → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

Leonidas at Thermopylae → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

Liberty Leading the People → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

Mona Lisa → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre collection

Portrait of Madame Récamier → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

The Astronomer → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

The Coronation of Napoleon → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

The Intervention of the Sabine Women → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

The Lacemaker → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

The Oath of the Horatii → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

The Raft of the Medusa → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

Venus de Milo → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Winged Victory of Samothrace → collection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Jan Porcellis → collectionContainsWorksIn → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Louvre, Paris

Pont des Arts → connects → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Philip II of France → constructed → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Louvre fortress in Paris

Right Bank of the Seine → contains → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Axe historique of Paris → containsBuilding → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Amarna letters → currentLocation → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Code of Hammurabi → currentLocation → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Samothrace → currentlyLocatedIn → Louvre Museum ⓘ

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Great Sphinx of Tanis → displayedIn → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Louvre, Sully Wing

Great Sphinx of Tanis → displayedIn → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Louvre, ground floor

Raoul La Roche → donatedCollectionTo → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du Louvre

Hubert Robert → employer → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Mona Lisa → exhibitedAt → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Louvre Museum, Paris

Whistler's Mother → exhibitedAt → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Nike (Greek goddess of victory) → famousStatueLocation → Louvre Museum ⓘ

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Louvre Museum → formerName → Louvre Museum self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée Napoléon

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this entity surface form: Louvre Museum administration

Denon Wing → hasCollection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sculpture collection of the Louvre

Maurice Quentin de La Tour → hasCollection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Willem Kalf → hasCollectionIn → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Carrousel du Louvre → hasEntranceTo → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Guillaume Coustou the Elder → hasPartInCollection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Louvre Museum (Marly Horses copies)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard → hasRepresentationIn → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Louvre collection

The Da Vinci Code (2006 film) score → hasTrack → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Louvre Museum

Pont Neuf → hasViewOf → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Pont des Arts → hasViewOf → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Place Charles-de-Gaulle → hasViewTowards → Louvre Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Louvre

Ferdinand Bol → hasWorkInCollection → Louvre Museum ⓘ

Govert Flinck → hasWorkInCollection → Louvre Museum ⓘ