In the article, the antediluvian Louvre, the author wrote that in the depths, under the Louvre, you can see the walls of an ancient fort. So, besides the Moscow one, as you can see, there are other underground museums. And this Moscow one is not an exception to the rule …
On the right bank of the Seine is the former royal residence, and now one of the largest and richest museums in the world - the Louvre. The Louvre Museum is the third largest museum in the world. It covers an area of over 652.3 thousand square meters. feet, which displays a huge number of artistic and historical relics collected from the XII century. The collections of the Louvre Museum number more than 400 thousand exhibits, and include all eras and geographical spaces. And how many exhibits are in the storerooms - one can only guess. In 1793, the doors of the museum were opened for the first time for everyone.
In the courtyard of the Louvre, in the middle of the square, there is a glass pyramid. Rather, there are three glass pyramids.
Under the Pyramid, in addition to the lobby, there is a conference hall, a hall for contemporary exhibitions and a new section dedicated to the history of the palace. The latter consists of two rooms, where documents, plans, engravings, drawings, models and other original exhibits are displayed in chronological order, testifying to the different stages of the history of the Louvre. The halls are located on the sides of the semicircular room.
But why it was necessary to carry out such an underground part of the museum is unknown. Perhaps archaeologists carried out excavations, and in order not to bury this pit back, they arranged the halls of the museum.
Promotional video:
After entering the pyramid, visitors descend 5-7 meters below the level of the square.
In the underground corridors of the Louvre, there are these underground walls:
Here is how one visitor to these nooks and crannies of the Louvre writes:
On my way there is a small corridor leading somewhere to the right. Some unknown force called me there and I turned out of my way and went deep into the dungeon. When I saw what was waiting for me at the end of the tunnel, I realized that this was the best that could be there. Once upon a time there was a castle on the site of the palace, surrounded by a moat, at the bottom of which I found myself. On both sides towered stone walls and foundations of once majestic towers. The veil of past impressions instantly passes and opens consciousness for the perception of the new. As if in a dream I walk along the moat, I turn into a passage in the wall and a part of the central tower appears in front of me, around which I find myself in a dark mysterious dungeon. Having strayed there a little,absorbing the atmosphere of the Middle Ages with every cell of my body, with a sense of accomplishment, I headed for the exit.
This is how it looked before the arrangement for tourists.
Visitors took off their shoes for an event.
Exhibitions of contemporary artists are also held there.
Question. If this is an underground foundation part of buildings, then why do they go down so deep? Judging by the photo, these underground walls have their own underground part. Or is it, as the official information says - a moat around the castle? Then why was this moat not preserved as a channel from the Seine? And if this is a moat, why was it made so deep? Why did archaeologists have to make powerful ceilings and dig this ditch from the inside?
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Note the multi-level floors throughout this exhibit. Archaeologists were too lazy to dig up and clear everything up to the end? And they left just such a "hint"?
I have not been to the Louvre, but out of the total number of visitors, did anyone wonder why this is so?
After reviewing many photographs, I realized that the beauty there is indescribable. This is why the Louvre is the most visited museum in the world.
The Louvre has a wing of Islamic art. The roof over the exhibits in the courtyard is made as a kind of curved surface.
My first association with this roof is a buried building. Maybe I'm already prejudiced against everything that somehow resembles the traces of a flood or the entry of buildings with soil, but answer: why is the roof made like that, I would say symbolic? Why not in our usual multi-slope and flat?
Exhibits under the roof.
Officially, this wing of the building looks like this in section.
Excavations under the walls of the Louvre. A couple of meters of soil was removed around part of the walls. But what is it? Silt from floods, floods or from some larger cataclysm?
Author: sibved