The Louvre is located in what country?

The Louvre is located in France. More precisely, the Louvre Museum is in central Paris, on the Right Bank of the Seine, in the historic 1st arrondissement.

The museum occupies the Louvre Palace, a vast complex whose earliest foundations were built as a medieval fortress under Philip II in the late 12th century. It later became a royal residence before being transformed into a public museum during the French Revolution. The Louvre opened to visitors on August 10, 1793.

Its collections range from ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern artifacts to European paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and Islamic art. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is its most famous work, but the museum holds many other renowned pieces, including the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.

A common mix-up is answering Paris, which is the city, rather than France, which is the country requested. The Louvre’s glass pyramid, designed by I. M. Pei, was completed in 1989 and has become one of Paris’s best-known landmarks.