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1. The Louvre is the largest art museum in the world.
True
2. The Louvre is located on the Seine River in Paris.
True
3. The museum has only seven rooms.
False → It has seven major areas and over 100 rooms.
4. The Louvre’s collection includes nearly 300,000 items.
True
5. One day is enough to see everything in the Louvre.
False → Even a whole day is not enough.
6. The original section of the Louvre was built over 800 years ago.
True
7. The Louvre was originally built as a palace.
False → It was first built as a fortress.
8. King Charles V turned one of the towers into a library.
True
9. The Louvre became a palace during the 1200s.
False → It became a palace in the 1500s.
10. King Henry IV added a section called the Grande Galerie.
True
11. By 1624, King Louis XIII had made the Louvre four times bigger.
True
12. The art in the Louvre was always open to the public.
False → It became public after the French Revolution, in 1793.
13. The Louvre opened to the public in 1793.
True
14. Today, the Louvre is privately owned.
False → It is owned and operated by the French government.
15. François Mitterrand expanded the museum in 1981.
True
16. The Louvre became smaller during Mitterrand’s project.
False → The museum became almost twice as big.
