Before it was a museum, the Louvre was originally a medieval fortress and then a royal palace. King François I had chosen the Louvre as his main residence in Paris and in 1528 he decided to ...

In order to fund the museum's colossal €800 million renovation plan, director Laurence des Cars has no shortage of ideas: prestigious galas, American donors and higher ticket prices for foreign ...

Have you ever wondered what the Louvre would look like in a ... welcomed more than 5 million visitors. The palace has served as the official royal residence for the monarch of the United Kingdom ...

Doechii, Michelle Yeoh, Dev Patel and more stars mingled with fashion’s celebrities at the first fashion-fabulous Grand Dîner ...

called "Louvre Couture", welcomed its first visitors a day after a stark warning from the director of the famed museum about overcrowding inside the former royal palace. The exhibition features ...

Renovation work at the former royal palace is expected to be very costly and technically complicated, but the cost of proposed upgrades has not yet been laid out. Half of the Louvre’s budget is ...

The Louvre communication service said no one was hurt and no incident was reported. Paris police said officers searched the museum after it received written bomb threats. The former royal palace ...

Created during the Assyrian Empire in the late 8th century B.C., in an area that is now Iraq, it guarded the Palace of Sargon II. It was excavated in the mid-19th cen., and lives on at the Louvre ...