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History of the Louvre
The Medieval Louvre
Key Figures:
- A 23-hectare garden in the center of Paris.
- Approximately 14 million visitors every year.
- 2,806 trees, including some noteworthy specimens
such as the extremely rare micocoulier cerasifera; Judas
trees over a hundred years old; as well as three field
elms which are among the last of their species in Paris.
- Approximately 100 ancient, modern and
contemporary sculptures- including some masterpieces
by Auguste Rodin, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Moore, Paul
Landowski, Germaine Richier, Auguste Cain, Giuseppe
Penone, Henri Laurens, Paul Belmondo, Erik Dietman,
and Gaston Lachaise.
- Over 7 kilometers of tree rows.
1564
Creation of the garden by Catherine de Medici
1604
Henri IV orders the planting of 20,000 white mul-
berry trees for French silkworm-rearing purposes.
1664
Under King Louis XIV, André Le Nôtre extends the
vista to create what would later become the Ave-
nue des Champs-Elysées.
1678
The garden opens to the public.
1789
The royal family returns to the Tuileries.
1792
The garden is declared a state property.
1871
Communards set fire to the Tuileries palace; its re-
mains are demolished in 1883.
1914
The Tuileries Garden is classified a protected his-
toric monument
1990
Competition to restore the Tuileries Garden in Paris
won by landscapers Pascal Cribier and Louis Benech;
architect François Roubaud; art historian Monique
Mosser; and artist Giuseppe Penone, who created
the Tree of Vowels.
1991
Added to the UNESCO World Heritage List as part
of the “Banks of the Seine” site.
2005
The Musée du Louvre is tasked with administering
the garden
2010
Landscapers Claire Laubie and Benoît Garnero build
a new children’s playground.
The musée national eugène delacroix
The Apartment
The Garden
Key figures
- A 200-m² apartment
- A 150-m² workshop
- A 370-m² garden
- Approximately 150 works exhibited in rotation
(two temporary exhibitions per year)
- 1,100 works belonging to the museum,
supplemented by regular loans from the Louvre
- A major annual exhibition
- Year-round tours, conferences, and drawing/
painting workshops: 33 workshops for children
and adults held in 2013
- 29 employees
- 65,000 visitors in 2013
- 245,000 fans on Facebook
- 1 audio guide app
Directors by Curatorial Department