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Museums
Museums are a place where different types of arts are collected, such as drawings, paintings, engravings, antiques and many others, and they are known as historical collectibles, because they have an important value since their existence to this day, and each piece of these holdings is difficult to come up with, and these holdings carry symbols and lessons. And stories, and stories drawn by history throughout the ages, and there are many museums around the world that are interested in these collections for their preservation, and display to visitors from around the world.
Where is the Louvre?
This museum is one of the largest museums in the world, and one of the historical monuments in the French city of Paris, and is located specifically in the center of this wonderful city, and on the right bank of the Seine as well, and this museum displays approximately 35 thousand masterpieces of creatures from prehistoric times until the first century The twenty, covering an area of 60,600 square meters, is considered the most visited museum in the world, and in a statistic for the year 2012 the number of visitors reached 9.7 million visitors where the museum is located in the Louvre Palace, which was built as a fort in the late twelfth century under the supervision of Philip II, and the remains of these The castle is visible in the basement of the house Antiques, and in the year 1682 AD Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles as a place for his household, and made the museum in its first place to be a place for displaying royal collections including ancient Greek and Romen sculptures, and in the year 1692 AD two academies of sculpture, inscriptions and drawings were established, which continued to Nearly 100 years, and during the French Revolution the National Assembly issued that the Louvre should be used as a museum to display the masterpieces of this nation.
The exhibition was opened on August 10, 1793, and it contained 537 paintings and the vast majority were the property of the king and the property of the church, and this museum was closed in 1796 because of the structural problems that he was suffering from, and then reopened in 1801 AD, During the reign of Napoleon the number of paintings in the museum increased, but they returned to their original owners, and the number of holdings increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the second French Empire in the museum it gained 20,000 pieces.
Collectibles groups
Among the most important monuments found in the Louvre:
- Egyptian Antiquities: It includes more than 50 thousand pieces obtained during the French Revolution on Egypt, and includes pieces of the Nile civilizations dating back to 400 BC, and many pieces dating back to Egyptian life spanning from ancient Egypt, the Middle Kingdom, the New Kingdom, Coptic art, and Romen , Ptolemaic and Byzantine periods.
- Greek, Etruscan and Romen: It includes pieces from the Stone Basin of the Mediterranean, such as marble sculptures such as the collections of Venus de Mello, and works such as Apollo Belvedi.
- Islamic Art: It includes exhibits of ceramics, glass, iron, wood, ivory, carpets, textiles, and miniatures, and includes more than 5,000 works.
