FRANCE — EUROPE
Paris — Louvre
A palace that became the world’s largest museum
Louvre is the largest art museum globally in terms of area (72,735 sq. mt.) and second-largest in terms of art collection (the largest art collection is in Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Louvre has over 35,000 works of art, which are displayed in about 16 kilometers of galleries. Even if you spent three seconds looking at each work of art, it would take you three months to see everything in the museum.
We had put aside a full day for Louvre, having no idea that it will take us half a day to get inside. The line was a mile long from the front entrance through the glass prism in the complex compound.
Luckily Louvre has a second entrance that many people don’t know about. It is through the underground shopping center. The line was much shorter there, but it still took us an hour to get inside when we got through the security.
To our dismay, we had to queue again—this time to buy the tickets.
By the time we got in, it was 1 p.m.
Lucky for us, it was Friday. On Fridays, the museum is open till ten pm.
