the Louvre began as a royal fortress. During the 16th century, Francis I demolished the old fortress and rebuilt it as a Renaissance-style palace. The building housed royalty until the 1600s ...

Though you don't necessarily have to visit the apartments to get a taste of what it was like to be a royal. Before it was a museum, the Louvre served as a royal residence for a number of French ...

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 in Paris opened its first-ever fashion exhibition on Friday, seeking to draw new, younger audiences to the world's most popular museum. The show, called "Louvre Couture", welcomed its ...

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 ...

In July, during the couture shows, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which happens to be located within the Louvre palace ... have become a simple luxury. A Royal Rebrand: Meghan, the Duchess ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 8. A protest took place in central Paris against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to send ...

While Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia actually live at Drottningholm Palace (some 20 minutes west of Stockholm), Kungliga Slottet (Royal Palace) serves as their workplace and is the ...

The Louvre is one of the most well-known art museums in the entire world. It used to be a fortress, then a palace. Now it is home to countless pieces of priceless artwork like the Mona Lisa and Venus ...