When did the Louvre Museum open in Paris?

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Gallery room at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, with framed portraits and group paintings on the walls and a bench in the center of the wood floor. — museum Interior of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Louvre Museum officially opened to the public in 1793, when the revolutionary government established the Musée Central des Arts within the building's Grande Galerie.1