![]() ![]() Thus, the pre-Columbian artifacts of the musée américain left in 1887 to the newly created Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro in 1905 the ethnographic collections of the Musée de Marine were divided between the Trocadéro museum, the National Antiquities Museum and the Chinese Museum (Fontainebleau) the rest of the Musée de Marine followed in the early 1940s, to the Palais de Chaillot the Louvre's extensive Asian art collections were handed over to the Guimet Museum in 1945 and most of its French artworks created after 1848 (except those which had to remain in the Louvre because of binding bequest provisions) were headed for the Musée d'Orsay by the early 1980s.Įven so, the Louvre Museum was cramped and lacked any space for modern facilities such as reserves, educational spaces, shops, restaurants and cafés, not to mention security screening, cloakrooms or washrooms. The expansion of the museum's collections, combined with the gradual shift of curatorial practices towards less cluttered displays, meant that the Louvre Museum was increasingly short of space, despite the periodical release of some of its holdings to other museums in Paris. This mixed-use reality was perpetuated in Napoleon III's Louvre expansion, which resulted in the entrenchment of administrative offices in the Louvre's North Wing, from 1871 mainly the Ministry of Finance. Even after the Louvre Museum was first established in 1793, many other activities still existed in the palace. Finance Ministry employees' cars parked in the Cour Napoléon, 1965įollowing Louis XIV's move to Versailles in the 1660s, the Louvre Palace ceased to be mainly used as a royal palace and became inhabited by artists, civil servants and the occasional royal, as well as hosting various bodies and institutions. ![]()
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