The Louvre No visit to Paris is complete without a trip to the Louvre Museum, one of the largest and most famous art museums in the world. The Louvre is in a beautiful old palace next to the River Seine, but you enter through a modern glass pyramid that the museum added in 1989. Inside, there are about 35,000 works of art. You can see objects and paintings from different centuries. Probably the most famous painting in the Louvre is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. He painted it in the early sixteenth century. It shows a young woman smiling. Everyone who looks at the Mona Lisa wonders what she is thinking about. Module task: Planning a guide to a museum Work in groups. Prepare a guide to a museum. Describe the museum: what kind of museum it is and what you can see there. Draw a diagram of the museum: what you can find on each floor. Provide more information: how to get to the museum; what the opening hours are; ticket information, etc. Find or draw pictures for your guide, showing what you can see at the museum. Present your guide to the class.