Musée du Louvre Paris is well-known for its museums, especially for the world's largest museum of art – Le Louvre.

Louvre made us a strong impression, especially in combination with Jardin des Tuileries, which located right next to the museum and saved the lay-out of the days of “King the Sun” Luis XIV. In this nice and quiet park with marble sculpture, ponds and parterres we rested after astonishing visit to the Louvre.

Entrance to the museum is organized through the glass pyramid in the middle of the XVII century palace yard. Construction of the pyramid is unique and reminds construction of airplanes or helicopters. Through this mark of modern times we entered to the kingdom of old age art. By the way, on the basement we found the walls and moats of the XII century(!!!) castle of Phillip II August which gave birth to the king’s palace – Le Louvre

The 1st work of art that started the collection of the biggest museum in the world was the most famous one – “Jokond” or “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci. That was the triumphal end of our 2 hour tour in the museum. And we started it with rooms of Greek and Roman sculpture. There we saw two “musts” of Louvre museum – Venus of Milos (the ideal of female beauty in Greece) and Nikka from Samofrakia (the wings’ goddess of Victory). Well, what can we say – we did not even saw a half of the treasures of the Louvre!

Musée d'Orsay Here you can enjoy the collection of paintings, sculpture, furniture, applied art starting from 1848 till 1914...

The next day brought us even more discoveries when we went to Musée Orsay. This one of the most interesting museums of art of “fin de ciecle” is situated in the building of the former railway station erected right on the embankment of Seine in light and comfortable style of Art Nouveau. It still have some signs of the railway station like gorgeous bronze clock, glass arches on iron frames, silhouette of huge clock on the facade. French government very clever saved the building settling it down for the collection of paintings, sculpture, furniture, applied art starting from 1848 till 1914. So museum is famous for the wonderful works of art made by Impressionists and Postimpressionists (Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Mane and Van Gough). It is very interesting to be in and it is so cool to see all of that paintings and items that you studied for 5 years in University!!!

There is another big museum of contemporary art (vanguard, cubism, surrealism…) in Paris – Centre Pompidu, which is also an exhibition hall, scientific center, library, theater, cinema, creative studio for children. But we saw it only from outside as we did not have strength to go inside. We were so overwhelmed with impressions we got in two mentioned above museums that just decided to save it for the next trip. Now we are sure we will come back!

More Pictures

Embankment across Musée du Louvre	Dasha in Musée du Louvre	Jardin des Tuileries

View from Musée d`Orsay through the clock (from the cafe of the museum)		Floor in Musée d`Orsay with model of the old city under it

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