Paris Vacation Day 1 – The Louvre Museum

Joe and I have been married for 9 months now, and is finally going on our honeymoon. We weren’t able to make up our mind on a place, after lots of recommendations, we decided on Paris, France.

Both of us have never been to Europe, so it was pretty exciting for the two of us. Our flight out of Los Angeles was delayed due to incoming flight delay, so that made us missed our connecting flight to Paris.  There were about 8 of us that missed the connecting flight to paris. At 11pm in Torronto airport, the airline personal was working hard to find all of us a flight to Paris.  We took a long detour to Germany first and finally ended up safely in Paris, 5 hours later than planned arrival.

It feels like autum in Paris, whenever the wind blows, leaves would fall and flow with the wind. So pretty !

Paris and it’s Metro system rocks ! It was so easy to go everywhere, all we needed to know was the end stations at each line, which determines the direction of travel.

There are 5 metro lines that stops at the Louvre Museum, so doesn’t matter where you’re staying, you can get to the Louvre museum easily.

The Louvre Museum

Rue de Rivoli
75001   Paris
Tél.:  01 4 020 53 17

Métro, buses
Métro: lines 1, 7, 8, 12, and 14

The Louvre and it’s garden.

Instead of showing you the exhibit of the Louvre, I’ll be showing you different architecture elements that intrigues me while I was there. The Louvre was build in part successively since the 12th century. The Louvre museum is designed by I.M. Pei, in 1983, commissioned by the French government without competition. He didn’t take on the project right away, instead, he asked for a 4 month research period before making his decision.

The problem was to make the Louvre a modern museum, there are a lot of exhibit space, but lack of infrastructure. Pei decided on a glass pyramid, it assumes the function of a symbolic entry to a huge complex of interconnected buildings which had no center. It also is a symbol that defines the entry to the Lourve Museum. The glass pyramid was very controversial in the beginning and I.M.Pei had to convince a lot of people before the start of the project.

But why a glass pyramid?  “formally, it is the most compatible with the architecture of the louvre… it is also one of the most structurally stable of forms, which assures its transparency… as it is constructed of glass and steel, it signifies a break with the architectural traditions of the past.
it is a work of our time.”  (quotations from the book ‘conversations with i.m. pei ‘)

The pole in the middle of the winding stair case is actually an elevator for the disabled.

This is on the feet of one of the statues in the museum. The heart caught my eye…

Take a look at the intricacies of this statue, it’s amazingly precise and lifelike.

If you ever visit the Louvre, make sure to walk a little future to see the upside down pyramid, the top of the upside down pyramid is  in the middle of the street circle in front of the Louvre Museum.

The Eiffel tower was lit that night, and was visible from the Louvre ! we haven’t visited the Eiffel tower yet, but it sure is pretty from a distance!

To see more of my Paris travel, visit Paris Vacation Day 2 – Versailles Palace and Paris Vacation Day 3 – All Around Paris

Enjoy,

Jenny Liu

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