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The Louvre’s collections are an invitation to travel – a celebration of beauty in all its forms and guises, transcending classification. At the Louvre, a small, everyday Egyptian chair is just as much a masterpiece as the most iconic works of the Italian Renaissance.

The diversity of the Louvre’s collections and the sheer history they represent are what make our museum unique: here, the past is examined, questioned and discussed, lending weight and meaning to the present. Like an ever-updated encyclopaedia, the Louvre encourages visitors to draw connections between its various collections, in order to see them in a new light and in new contexts. To move easily from one civilisation or artistic technique to another is to experience the joy of becoming a nomad, a wanderer, an explorer.

With the online Musée du Louvre Collections database, everyone can share in this journey of discovery and rediscovery. It contains over 500,000 works from the Musée du Louvre and the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix spanning a variety of places in France or abroad. Each entry includes the work’s current location, whether it be on display in the Musée du Louvre or the Musée Delacroix, exhibited in the gardens, on loan to other institutions, or held in a reserve collection. Updated on a daily basis, this database is the product of the continuous research and documentation work conducted by the specialists of the Établissement Public du Musée du Louvre.