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The Louvre is the most visited museum in the world
It received close to nine million visitors in a typical recent year
The museum occupies a former royal palace on the Seine and holds around 35,000 works on display out of a collection of nearly half a million. Its glass pyramid entrance, added in 1989, became a landmark in its own right. Visitor numbers slumped during the pandemic and have since recovered towards earlier levels.
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