Louvre Museum of Paris

Paris: Musée du Louvre

If visiting Paris, we strongly recommend visiting the Louvre museum. It is so large, you can visit different section each time you tour Paris.

Getting to the Musée du Louvre: map
Métro: Palais-Royal-Musée du Louvre
Bus: 21, 24, 27, 39, 48, 68, 69, 72, 81, 95, and the Paris Open Tour bus (these lines stop in front of the glass pyramid entrance)
Underground parking is open daily from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and is accessible via Avenue du Général Lemonnier.

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Walk Like an Egyptian at Musée du Louvre!

One of my favorite areas to wander at the Musée du Louvre in Paris is the “Department of Egyptian Antiquities”.

It highlights artifacts from the Nile Valley from the late prehistoric era (c. 4000 BC) to the Christian period (4th century AD). Incroyable!

Many people assume this department is a result of Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt between 1798 and 1801; that it was sprung from 'spoils of war'. This is not so!

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