In order to fund the museum's colossal €800 million renovation plan, director Laurence des Cars has no shortage of ideas: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nestled within Palace Park at the western end of Karl Johans gate, the Royal Palace draws history buffs, architecture enthusiasts, political junkies and those who enjoy learning about European royals.

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 ...

This neighborhood, which lies on the eastern banks of the Seine River, is home to the enormous Musée du Louvre – a royal palace-turned-art museum, which contains more than 35,000 works of art ...