Musee du Louvre

The Musée du Louvre reigns as the world's largest and most visited art museum, drawing over 8 million visitors in 2024 and housing more than 380,000 objects, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory. This unrivaled repository outperforms #2 Musée d'Orsay by spanning 15,000 years of art, from ancient civilizations to 1848, across eight curatorial departments. With 72,735 square meters of exhibition space—roughly 60% larger than its nearest rival—the Louvre offers a depth of history no other Paris museum can match. Visitors should plan at least two days to fully explore its Egyptian antiquities, Renaissance masterpieces, and Napoleonic apartments.