Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre (Paris Métro)

Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre is a station of the Paris Métro. It is located in the 1st arrondissement below the Rue de Rivoli between the Louvre and Palais Royal. It is served by lines 1 and 7.

History

The station was opened on 19 July 1900 as one of the first Parisian underground stations with the commissioning of the Métro line 1. At that time she was still wearing the name Palais Royal. However, as part of renovation work, she received a underground access to the shopping center Carrousel du Louvre, and thus also to the Louvre itself thus unfamiliar with tourists no longer at the remote station further from the Museum Louvre - Rivoli got out, In 1989, the station its present name.

Special

For the one hundredth anniversary of the Paris Métro an architecturally unusual entrance was here in 2000 on the Place Colette created. He is called " Le Kiosk of Noctambules " ( Kiosk of the night trotters ) and comes from the artist Jean -Michel Othoniel. The entrance has two domes. One of them symbolizes the day, one for the night. The domes consist of colorful glass beads which are held together by an aluminum structure.