Elaine Sciolino, formerly the Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, has volunteered herself as a chatty, amiable tour ...

When the former New York Times Paris bureau chief first set out to write a book about the most famous and largest museum in ...

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...

In 1793 the medieval fortress-turned-royal palace was opened to all the ... author of Inventing the Louvre and a professor of art history and museum studies at Tufts University.

It contains over 600,000 works of art spanning almost 10,000 years of history ... the expansion of the Louvre was paused when Louis XIV moved his budget to the Palace of Versailles in the 1670 ...

These rooms are filled with pieces of history painting which was ... a medieval fortress and then a royal palace. King François I had chosen the Louvre as his main residence in Paris and in ...